Le Corsaire. ABT. 1999.

Watch Le Corsaire Here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laRl7uub9vo

Le Corsaire is the perfect vehicle for the world-renowned virtuosity of the American Ballet Theatre.
The acclaimed cast masterfully weaves their way through pirates, shipwrecks, abductions, treachery and true love.
Dazzling choreography is intertwined with colorful costumes, exotic scenery and special effects that add life to the non-stop action.
It's entertainment, pure and simple.
Julie Kent, Angel Corella, Joaquin De Luz, Paloma Herrera, Vladimir Malakhov, Ethan Stiefel.

Caravaggio: Staatsballet Berlin.

Watch Caravaggio Here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gICKVmotY0

Watch The Making Of Caravaggio Here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n157aMw6_A0

Caravaggio Rehearsals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im2JckP3IOk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuFrvh20aBI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbdaU73el20

The Nutcracker. Staatsballet Berlin. 1999.

Watch The Performance Here:

http://youtu.be/v1qq0a39Mxg

Tchaikovsky is considered to be Russia's great symphonic composer. In his music he achieved
a synthesis of the national musical language of Russia and the compositional forms of the
western European Romantics. His most famous ballets enjoy a position of honor in the
Classical Ballet repertoire because of their melodic intensity and instrumental brilliance.
In the fairy tale "The Nutcracker and the King of the Mice" written by E.T.A. Hoffman,
on which Tchaikovsky's ballet is based, Christmas provides the realistic setting for a
fantastic plot. Fiction and reality are woven together by means of strange and wonderous
occurences to produce a fascinating and unfathomable labyrinth. In 1999, exactly 107 years,
to the day, after the first performance in St. Petersburg, Patrice Bart's choreography of
Tchaikovsky's worldwide success "The Nutcracker" was premiered at the Staatsoper Unter den
Linden in Berlin. Bart placed a prologue before the ballet in which Marie is abducted as
a child in which everything is placed in a modern context.

Barbara Schroeder
Kira Kirillova
Beatrice Knop
Viara Natcheva
Nadja Saidakova
Daniel Barenboim
Vladimir Malakhov
Torsten Handler
Oliver Matz
Steffen Neumann