Rehearsing for spring performances
ESDC PERFORMANCES
May 30, 2010
Ballet Meets Art at the Mead
Advanced students perform at Amherst College's Mead Art Museum.
May 14-16, 2010
2010 Spring Repertory Show
Three unique performances providing a valuable opportunity for our students to share and showcase their progress from the studio to the stage.
June 6 & 7, 2009
2009 Spring Repertory Show
A thrilling program featured excerpts from Coppelia, Swan
Lake and Sylvia as well as works created by Donna Bonasera,
Benjamin Reyes and Irina Vakhromeeva for the advanced
students and trainees of East Street Ballet.
December 19-21, 2008
Maeterlinck’s profound fairy play The Blue Bird
A Holiday Family Treat
The audience embarked upon a mystical journey with Tyltyl and Mytyl whose lives are changed forever one Christmas Eve by a mysterious fairy who sends them to find “the bird that is blue”. Their adventure takes them to many magical places including the Land of Memory, the Palace of Happiness and the Kingdom of the Future. After their long search and many incredible encounters, the children return home without the bluebird only to find it waiting for them where they least expected it. In the end, the children learn that true happiness is usually found close to home. The Bluebird is a delightful story about the power of the imagination, the innate magic and metaphor to be found in everyday life and the meaning of true happiness.
The performance featured guest artists Vitali Krauchenka, soloist with American Ballet Theater and Vadim Pijikov, International Artist from St. Petersburg, Russia along with young artists and students from the East Street School of Ballet. The choreography was by Associate Director of ESB Irina Vakhromeeva, herself an International artist.
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), was a Belgian poet, dramatist and essayist. His fairy play The Blue Bird written in 1908 was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, in 1909. The play enjoyed phenomenal success and subsequently was adapted to opera, ballet and film. In 1911, Maeterlink was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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