40th Anniversary North American Tour
June 16 - 18, 2017
Segerstrom Hall
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Segerstrom Center for the Arts welcomes Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg June 16 – 18, 2017 performing Red Giselle, Boris Eifman’s ballet fantasy inspired by the tragic and tumultuous life of one of Russia’s greatest ballerinas, Olga Spessivtseva. This North American tour is in celebration of Eifman Ballet's 40th anniversary.
Eifman’s works appeal to the dance fan as well as those who crave powerful and provocative theater. Red Giselle is set during the beginning of the 20th century, an era of worldwide revolution, expatriation and personal tragedies, and Eifman’s ballerina is both a force and a victim in this captivating psychodrama. The New York Times declared, “It is a highly dramatic and theatrical (the two are not the same) work, a perfected form of narrative ballet for which others in the West have strived.”
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