WEST LONG BRANCH – Monmouth University’s Center for the Arts in partnership with BY Experience, the global leader of alternative content distribution, announced they will begin screening satellite broadcasts of the internationally renowned Bolshoi Ballet, based in Moscow, Russia.
The Center for the Arts already presents live screenings of the Metropolitan Opera and the National Theatre of London in collaboration with BY Experience.
This is the fifth year that the Bolshoi Ballet will broadcast internationally and the first season to be broadcast in North America. Monmouth University’s schedule will feature six programs from the 2014-15 Bolshoi Ballet season. Each production will feature behind‐the‐scenes programming, including interviews with the cast and creative teams, either prior to the start of the production, or during intermission.
The broadcasts begin with “The Legend of Love” on Sunday, Nov. 2, with choreography by Yuri Grigorovich, legendary Bolshoi ballet master and choreographer. Pierre Lacotte’s “The Pharaoh’s Daughter” is set for Thursday, Dec. 4, followed by “La Bayadere” on Sunday, Dec.14. The Bolshoi’s celebrated masterpiece “Swan Lake” screens on Thursday, Jan. 29, followed on Sunday, March 22, by “Romeo and Juliet” and closing the season on Thursday, April 23, is a broadcast of Grigorovich’s revival of an epic in the true Bolshoi style, “Ivan the Terrible.”
Founded in 1776, the legendary Bolshoi Ballet is one of the most celebrated ballet companies in the world. The company is made up of more than 250 dancers including some of the world’s most celebrated artists today: Svetlana Zakharova, David Hallberg, Maria Alexandrova, Evgenia Obraztsova, Ekaterina Shipulina, Olga Smirnova, Artem Ovcharenko, Anna Nikulina, Vladislav Lantratov and Semyon Chudin.
All of these broadcasts will be shown on one of the area’s largest HD screens at the Pollak Theatre on Monmouth University campus.
Tickets to all Bolshoi Ballet events are $20 and can be purchased online at www.monmouth.edu/arts or by calling the box office at 732-263-6889.
