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19:00 | Igor Moiseyev Dance Ensemble |
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Outstanding Russian choreographer Igor Moiseyev is the master choreographer who created a new form of theatrical folk dance in and whose troupe was one of the most popular dance companies of the 20th century. He staged three hundred dances of the peoples of the world, each recognized by choreography historians as unique in its expressiveness and beauty. Igor Moiseyev Ensemble's energy, virtuosity, precision and ingenious distillation of folk styles from many lands set audiences cheering worldwide. When the troupe made its New York debut in 1958, presented by the impresario Sol Hurok at the Metropolitan Opera House, it became the first major Soviet dance group to perform in the United States. The visit helped usher in a new era of cultural exchange, formalized that year by an agreement signed by the United States and the Soviet Union. John Martin, the dance critic of The New York Times, pronounced the New York debut "stupendous." The encemble will perform the ballet "Night on Bald Mountain" refers to a series of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky. Inspired by Russian literary works and legend, Mussorgsky composed a "musical picture", St. John's Eve on Bald Mountain on the theme of a witches' sabbath occurring on St. John's Eve, which he completed on that very night, June 23, in 1867. Together with Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko, it is one of the first tone poems by a Russian composer.
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