RUSSIAN BALLET

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 53, 18 March 1937, Page 3

RUSSIAN BALLET

In Hastings Next Week To-morrow morning the box plans will be opened at nine o'clock at Fail's for the appearance here on Tuesday and Wednesday iiights next and on Wednesday atternoon of Colonel de Basil s world-renowned Monte Carlo Russian Ballet, and judging b^' the extraordinary large number of applications which have been received by mail for seats it is lilrely that the whole of the theatre will be entirely booked out. Tne Russian Ballet is, without any doubt the most stupendous and tnost expensive attraction Messrs J. C. Williainson Ltd., has presented to theatregoers of New Zealand or Australia. The Imperial Russian Theatres, which for over 100 years set themselves the task to develop and plac« on a high pinnacle the art of the Dance, now np longer exist, and with them has disappeared the home where the traditions of this gloiious past were so faithfully fostered and preserved. Happily for the Ballet anj for all lovers of this art, while the Imperial Theatres were still in existenee, the public outside Russia had the good tortune to become acquainted with its aehievements. , The art of dancing, as expressed in the form and decor of the Russian school, is to-day the most vital in the

• world, for it has that Snternational »pi peal which alone can make any artistiq endeavour really gfreat and lasting. New, i Zealanders are heirtg given. the oppor1 tunity to witness and enjoy the great* ' est and. most suecessfui ballets presen* ' ted by the same danoers that inter- ' preted. them at Covent Garden Theatre* ' London, and on the. Continet. The full syxr^hony orchestra of imported musioians is under the direction of Jascht Horenstein, former conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and Ivai t Clayton. Altogether 110 people will . take parfe in the periormance, including Leon Woizikowsky, who has been ao- ' claimed as the greatest male dancer in the' world to-day, and whose own bal* let company played with great success for an extended season at the- London Cpliseum. Woizikowsky will be featuri ed in all the ballets including "ScheK* erazade.'i Two other notable dancers are the beautiful Valentina Blinova and Helene Kirsova, who created 4 sensation in Australia anjj Auckland.; On Tuesday the ballets include "Lei| Sylphides," "Scheberazade" and "Aurora' s Wedding" and on Wednesdajj "Carnaval," "Les Presages'' and "La Boutique Fantasque."