Bolshoï at Grimaldi Forum on October 10 through 15, 2006

Marius Petipa drew on his own romantic illusions to choreograph this ballet first performed in 1877 at the Maryinsky Theater. La Bayadère can be considered the precursor to Swan Lake and Les Sylphides, its choreography bearing witness to Petipa's original approach in working out his symmetrical compositions on a chessboard. It's a ballet with something for everyone: melodrama, romantic exoticism (so fashionable in that day), pure classical technique and neo-baroque styling. The Bolshoi Ballet dances Yuri Grigorovich's version directly inspired by the original to which in 1991 he added several scenes and dances, still to music by the famous composer Ludwig Minkus who wrote the music for 16 of Marius Petipa's other ballets. La Bayadère is an ode to love, memory and time above all else.

October 13 and 14 at 8:30PM and October 15 at 3:30PM
Tickets €40, €75, €100 and €150
Place: Grimaldi Forum - Salle des Princes

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