Contemporary Ballet Collection launched and selected by National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) and American Ballet Theater (ABT) will bring together the representative five repertoires of advancing front of American contemporary ballet. The audience will have the chance to enjoy the latest three pieces of work having their world premiere in American Lincoln Center on October 15, 2009. The choreographers of the three are respectively the former art director of Bolshoi Theatre Alexei Romansky, the international popular choreographer Benjamin Millepied and the well-known American woman choreographer Aszure Barton. Performance of the three ballets in NCPA means their first appearance outside America, only one month after its world premiere. The most exciting thing is the fact that Chinese audience will learn the latest fashion of the cotemporary ballet at the most rapid pace and experience the thrill of going forward side by side with the cutting edge of the world art. Apart from the three ballets of Asia premiere, ABT and NCPA have also selected especially for the Chinese audience two classic ballets with American jazz and blues style. And these five are gathered into an audio-visual feast for our audience's appreciation.  

Programs
Jerome Robbins          Other Dances
Alexei Ratmansky       Seven Sonatas
Aszure Barton            One of Three
Benjamin Millepied     Everything Doesn't Happen At Once 

                                                  19:30　Nov.12                                              19:30　Nov. 13
Seven Sonatas              Xiomara Reyes*, Stella Abrera,                 Christine Shevchenko, Sarah Lane,
                                           Hee Seo, Jared Matthews,                    Yuriko Kajiya, Alexandre Hammoudi,
                                    Herman Cornejo*, Gennadi Saveliev                 Joseph Phillips, Catlos Lopez
One of Three                               Company                                                       Company
Other Dances              Veronika Part*, Marcelo Gomes*                 Gillian Murphy*, David Hallberg*
Everything Doesn't     Isabella Boylston, Marcelo Gomes*                   Stella Abrera, Cory Stearns
Happen at Once
* for Principal Dancer
                                                          
             

American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the foremost ballet companies in the world today, has a galaxy of world-class dancers as well as a wide-ranging and classic repertoire, earning it the title of "the Museum of Ballet". ABT was founded to be a truly American style ballet company and its successful establishment ushered in a new era in the history of ballet. Today, it is world-renowned for its unique American style that transcends cultural boundaries. Frequenting the best theaters in the U.S. including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, ABT has actually become the national ballet of America.

One outstanding feature of ABT is that all the ballets it has performed are choreographed in a way that combines the traditional and contemporary elements of ballet. Moreover, in its pursuit to be one of the top ballets in the world, ABT has successfully attracted a good many preeminent ballet dancers from around the world to be its guest dancers, making it a salon for ballet masters. It is in this way that ABT holds on to its American style and keeps open to the world in the mean time.

It is the first time ABT has been to Beijing. During the four-day visit, it will present six performances at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) which are bound to touch the soul of ballet lovers.


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