Les Saisons Russes
A celebration of the centenary of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (1909-2009) by the Kremlin Ballet from Moscow at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. Artistic direction Andris Liepa and Andrei Petrov, production Nadia Solovieva. On June 20 the ballets Sheherazade (chor. Andris Liepa after Mikhail Fokine, designs Anna and Anatoly Nezhny), Thamar (chor. Jurius Smoriginas, designs Anna Nezhny) and Boléro (chor. Bronislava Nijinska, desgins after Alexander Benois) were performed by principals of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres and artists of the Kremlin Ballet.