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• • Night of Stars Run-Time: 2 hours
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• Boston Ballet’s one-night-only Night of Stars opens the 2010-2011 season. Last season’s Night of Stars was a sold-out success, with The Phoenix asserting there must be a “ballet boom” in Boston and The Boston Globe raving, “from the opening fanfare to the closing processional… Night of Stars was a rousing celebration.” The fifth annual performance promises to thrill audiences with a range of classical to contemporary highlights from the Company’s diverse repertoire. Night of Stars, a fantastic entry-point into the world of ballet, will highlight all of Boston Ballet’s dancers from the second company, Boston Ballet II, to the accomplished principals and soloists. The complete Night of Stars programming follows:
  Casting and repertoire subject to change.
  
  The Shades (excerpt from La Bayadére)
  Music: Ludwig Minkus
  Choreography: Florence Clerc by Marius Petipa
  Dancers: Company
  
  Apollo (excerpt)
  Music: Igor Stravinsky
  Choreography: George Balanchine
  Dancers: Pavel Gurevich and Kathleen Breen Combes 
  
  Le Corsaire (pas de deux)
  Music: Adolphe Adam
  Choreography: Mikko Nissinen after Marius Petipa
  Dancers: Adiarys Almeida and Joseph Gatti
  
  Plan to B
  Music: Henrich von Biber
  Choreography: Jorma Elo
  Dancers: Company
  
  Scherzo a la Russe
  Music: Igor Stravinsky
  Choreography: George Balanchine
  Dancers: Maria Alvarez, Melanie Riffee and students of Boston Ballet School
  
  Tarantella
  Music: Louis Moreau Gottschalk
  Choreography: George Balanchine
  Dancers: Whitney Jensen and Jeffrey Cirio
  
  WORLD PREMIERE
  Music: Lucas Vidal 
  Choreography: Yury Yanowsky
  Dancers: Rie Ichikawa, John Lam, Jaime Diaz
  
  Don Quixote (pas de deux)
  Music: Ludwig Minkus
  Choreography: Mikko Nissinen after Marius Petipa
  Dancers: Lia Cirio and Lasha Khozashvili and Erica Cornejo and Nelson Madrigal
  
  Layli and Majnun – WORLD PREMIERE
  Music: Arvo Pärt
  Choreography: Helen Pickett
  Dancers: Larissa Ponomarenko and Yury Yanowsky 
  
  After the Rain pas de deux
  Music: Arvo Pärt
  Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon
  Dancers: Wendy Whelan and Damian Smith
  
  Theme and Variations (excerpts)
  Music: P. I. Tchaikovsky
  Choreography: George Balanchine
  Dancers: Misa Kuranaga and James Whiteside and Company

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