Date:
Friday, November 9, 2018, 1:30pm
Location:
Houghton Library
Presented by:
Harvard Theatre Collection and the Princeton Department of MusicTickets: Free and open to the public; seating is limited.
After more than a century, the ballets of Marius Petipa remain a staple of dance companies around the world. Join Alastair Macaulay (The New York Times) and an international panel of dance experts for a symposium shedding new light on Petipa’s formative years in France and Spain; and the preservation of his choreography through a cache of pioneering films rediscovered in Russia in 1995. Alexei Ratmansky (American Ballet Theatre) will offer concluding remarks on his recent reconstructions of "Harlequinade" for ABT and "La Bayadère" for the Staatsballett Berlin, using a unique archive of dance notations in the Harvard Theatre Collection.
A reception and viewing of the exhibition, Step Back: Seeing Ballet’s Future in the Past, will follow.
Speakers
Alastair Macaulay
Chief Dance Critic, The New York Times
Alexei Ratmansky
Artist in Residence, American Ballet Theatre
Viktor Bocharov
Filmmaker and Historian, Moscow
Laura Hormigón
Magazine ADE-Teatro, Madrid; former prima ballerina, National Ballet of Cuba
Sergey Konaev
Principal Researcher, The State Institute for Art Studies, Moscow
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