Festive program “Christmas Ballet Gale” will be dedicated to

the distinguish Russian ballet dancer Ekaterina Maksimova

On 17 December a festive concert “Christmas Ballet Gala” will be conducted on the scene of the State Kremlin Palace supported by the International Ballet Center. One scene will unite the world ballet stars, which are soloists in the best theaters of the planet: Roberto Bolle (La Scala, American Ballet Theater), Lucia Lacarra (Bavarian State Opera Ballet), Polina Semionova (Berlin State Opera), Matthew Golding (Dutch National Ballet), Ivan Zaitsev (Mikhailovsky Theatre), Natalia Somova and Georgi Smilevski (Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theater) and the famous artists of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia – Denis Rodkin, Eleonora Sevenard, Artemy Belyakov, Evgeniya Obraztsova, Ekaterina Krysanova, Igor Tsvirko, Kristina Kretova and Vladislav Lantratov. The honored guest of the concert – the people’s artist of USSR Vladimir Vasiliev. The party will be conducted within the framework of the project of the annual Christmas Gala Concert of the world ballet stars and will be one of the most significant events in the Moscow cultural life.

The concert in honor of Maksimova the Great will not be occasionally conducted on the scene of the State Kremlin Palace – the ballet dancer worked here up to the last day of her life. The party program will include the fragments of her most famous parts in the ballets “Anyuta”, “Nutcracker”, “Galatea”, “Spartacus”, “Don Quixote”, “Fragments of one biography”, and the modern choreography. The bright costumes, unique multimedia and light stage design will help to create a special atmosphere, to make this party unforgettable and really festive.

Ekaterina Maksimova was an exclusive phenomena on the world ballet scene. Her charming appearance, outstanding actor gift and impeccable technique made her the favorite performer of some generations of the spectators. Her name is one of the symbols of the Russian Ballet School of the XX century. The great contemporaries admires her in Russia and abroad, among which were Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina and Marlene Dietrich. The great choreographers of the previous century – Yury Grigorovich, Kasyan Goleizovsky, Maurice Béjart and Roland Petit worked with her. The French couturier Hubert Givency compared here to his favorite Audrey Hepburn for her airiness, gracefulness and unbelievable elegance. A whole range of roles performed by Maksimova is deemed to the present to be a standard, as her duet with her spouse, legendary dancer, choreographer and director Vladimir Vasiliev.

“Each spectacle is the sole, the theatre is in this notion. The spectator arrives: maybe he will see me once in his life. He will remember me so as he will see me… The spectacle begins – and everything which was gathered in the soul during the long hours of rehearsals, estranged reflexions shall be transferred by me to the spectators, I shall attract them, make them fee with my personage. And when there come such silence that you fell fall down in it – it means that the hall is breathing with you; it means that they feel the same that you feel… Such uniting with the spectators thrills the soul!”, – these words pronounced by Ekaterina Maksimova contain the sense and destination of the art for all its real appraisers.

“Christmas Ballet-Gala” became an annual Shristmas holiday of ballet, a place of meeting with the world performers, which reflect the creative interests and trends of the modern choreographic art. This year, 6,000 spectators will witness again the unbelievable holiday of ballet, “Christmas Ballet-Gala” – is the best present on the eve of New Year for all the lovers of high art!