On the evening of November 2nd, the Mariinsky Ballet production - The Sleeping Beauty - was performed at the NCPA. More than 100 dancers had made their appearance one after another, setting off a new upsurge for the amazing and enthralling NCPA Dance Festival 2017.
As Mariinsky Orchestra conductor Alexei Repnikov raised his baton, the Chinese premiere of The Sleeping Beauty kicked off. The glittering arch and aisle columns, gorgeously-dressed people, and magnificent accompanying music took the audience back to the age of the French palace of the 17th century, placing them in a familiar fairy scene.
The Lilac Fairy, Tender Fairy, Playful Fairy, Generous Fairy, Brave Fairy and Carefree Fairy came on stage one by one and jointly performed graceful “Fairy Waltz” in a free form to the accompaniment of a mysterious, soft waltz.
Then, Princess Aurora, played by the first soloist Anastasia Matvienko, performed the well-known Rose Adagio with four princes, who came to pay court to her.
Then came the happy ending of the ballet—a grand, lively wedding was held in Act 3. The prince and princess performed the large-scale dance “Pas De Deux at Wedding”. Finally, the prince and princess, as well as the guests, said goodbye to the audience one after another by dancing respectively to the accompaniment of a Mazurka.
On the afternoon of the 20th, the NCPA specially-invited Yuri Fateyev, the Director and Ballet Master of Mariinsky Ballet, OU Jianping, a dance theorist and the director of the Research Institute of Dance, Chinese National Academy of Arts, and three main performers Kristina Shapran, Renata Shakirova and Philipp Stepin gathered for a dialogue.
In his opinion, every performer in the Mariinsky Ballet tells the successor an understanding of the role and experience in performance. The transmission of this performance tradition may be strange to all other theatres that deal with The Sleeping Beauty, while only Mariinsky Theatre, at which The Sleeping Beauty premiered, could preserve the tradition for over 100 years.
On the evening of November 2nd, the Mariinsky Ballet production - The Sleeping Beauty - was performed at the NCPA. More than 100 dancers had made their appearance one after another, setting off a new upsurge for the amazing and enthralling NCPA Dance Festival 2017.
As Mariinsky Orchestra conductor Alexei Repnikov raised his baton, the Chinese premiere of The Sleeping Beauty kicked off. The glittering arch and aisle columns, gorgeously-dressed people, and magnificent accompanying music took the audience back to the age of the French palace of the 17th century, placing them in a familiar fairy scene.
The Lilac Fairy, Tender Fairy, Playful Fairy, Generous Fairy, Brave Fairy and Carefree Fairy came on stage one by one and jointly performed graceful “Fairy Waltz” in a free form to the accompaniment of a mysterious, soft waltz.
Then, Princess Aurora, played by the first soloist Anastasia Matvienko, performed the well-known Rose Adagio with four princes, who came to pay court to her.
Then came the happy ending of the ballet—a grand, lively wedding was held in Act 3. The prince and princess performed the large-scale dance “Pas De Deux at Wedding”. Finally, the prince and princess, as well as the guests, said goodbye to the audience one after another by dancing respectively to the accompaniment of a Mazurka.
On the afternoon of the 20th, the NCPA specially-invited Yuri Fateyev, the Director and Ballet Master of Mariinsky Ballet, OU Jianping, a dance theorist and the director of the Research Institute of Dance, Chinese National Academy of Arts, and three main performers Kristina Shapran, Renata Shakirova and Philipp Stepin gathered for a dialogue.
In his opinion, every performer in the Mariinsky Ballet tells the successor an understanding of the role and experience in performance. The transmission of this performance tradition may be strange to all other theatres that deal with The Sleeping Beauty, while only Mariinsky Theatre, at which The Sleeping Beauty premiered, could preserve the tradition for over 100 years.
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