Event listing: American Ballet Theatre's All-Star Gala, Tokyo | Bunkamura, Orchard Hall | Tue 25 Feb 2014 at 19:00

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Bunkamura, Orchard Hall24-1,Dogenzaka 2-chome Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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Programme

Theme and Variations	Music: Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893)
Giselle (Pas de deux)	Music: Adam, Adolphe (1803-1856) Choreography: Marius Petipa
The Sleeping Beauty (Pas de deux)	Music: Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893)
La Dame aux camélias (Pas de deux)	Music: Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek (1810-1849)
Don Quixote (Pas de deux)	Music: Minkus, Ludwig (1826-1917) Choreography: Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky
Concerto DSCH	Music: Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)

Performers

American Ballet Theatre

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Symphonic storytelling: The Sleeping Beauty

Mark Pullinger, 27th July

The Sleeping Beauty is perhaps the Ugly Duckling of Tchaikovsky’s three ballets. It was the second in the trilogy, completed in 1889, but has neither the dramatic thrust of Swan Lake nor the calorific sugar-coated charm of The Nutcracker in terms of popular appeal.

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American Ballet Theatre’s All Star Gala in Tokyo

Naomi Mori, 25th February

American Ballet Theatre’s second program of their tour is the All Star Gala, not just a star-studded pas de deux evening but with two brilliant works, Balanchine's Theme and Variations and Ratmansky's Piano Concerto no. 1.

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