Giselle - November 2007 - Press Release
Cork City Ballet Announces its first full length production - Giselle
For its Winter Season at the Cork Opera House, Cork City Ballet
presents the full-length ballet Giselle – the poignant and
tragic love story about a peasant girl who dies and comes back from the dead
to save her lover. The show opens
Wednesday 21st November and will run for four performances only.
The title role of Giselle - the most
celebrated ballet of the romantic era - will be danced by Ireland’s prima
ballerina Monica Loughman, and she will be partnered by the Russian
ballet star Robert Gabdullin – a principal dancer at the Perm State
Ballet. Leading ballerina Chika
Temma who has danced at the famous Maryinski (Kirov) Theatre in St. Petersburg
will also be dancing one of the principal roles along with soloists and the
full corps de ballet from Cork City Ballet.
Directed by the company’s Artistic Director Alan Foley, this
production of Giselle will be reproduced for Cork City Ballet by
Yuri Demakov who trained at the Bolshoi Ballet School in Moscow.
It promises to enthral audiences with the symphonic beauty of the
original choreography of Marius Petipa, Jean Corelli, and Jules Perrot,
combined with stunning new costumes made at the Kirov theatre in Russia.
Speaking
at the recent launch of this production, Artistic Director Alan Foley said,
"I am delighted that Giselle, with its beautiful score, and
exacting choreography, is the first full-length ballet that the company has
chosen to present. We at Cork City Ballet (as one of only two professional
ballet companies in Ireland presenting the full-length classics) are very
proud to continue the legacy of the great Joan Denise Moriarty in this
city”.
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For further information
please contact:
Eimear
O’Brien,
Press
Officer, Cork City Ballet Company,
Tel:
086 8900364
Email:
eimearobr@gmail.com