JEWELS

GALA PROGRAMME

DON QUIXOTE

The Lowry, Manchester

Tuesday 13 May to Saturday 17 May 2008

Birmingham Hippodrome

Tuesday 20 May to Saturday 24 May 2008

The incomparable Kirov Ballet arrives from St. Petersburg on a tour to Manchester and Birmingham with a dazzling programme which includes Balanchine's glittering masterpiece Jewels, an exuberant production of Don Quixote and an exciting Gala programme of lyric and bravura divertissements. The company showcases some of the most dazzling dancers in the world today, highlighting: Uliana Lopatkina, Nadezhda Gonchar, Sofia Gumerova, Irma Nioradze, Elena Sheshina, Viktoria Tereshkina, Ekaterina Kondaurova, Irina Golub, Alina Somova, Olesya Novikova, Ekaterina Osmolkina, Igor Kolb, Leonid Sarafanov, Andrian Fadeyev, Daniil Korsuntsev, Anton Korsakov, Ivan Kozlov, Mikhail Lobukhin.