The 2008 Dance Open Mariinsky Ballet Festival is a combination of performances by international dancers and also a series of master classes. Among the master classes shown are Mariinsky dancers and teachers, Uliana Lopatkina , Sergei Berezhnoi , Gennadi Selyutsky and Lyubov Kunakova . Also shown is Bolshoi Ballet coach, Lyudmila Semenyaka . The performers shown include Bolshoi Ballet Nikolai Tsiskaridze and Ilse Liepa in Le Dame Pique ( Queen of Spades ) by Roland Petit .Mariinsky Ballet Viktoria Tereshkina and Leonid Sarafanov in Le Corsaire . Bolshoi Ballet Maria Alexandrova and Dmitri Gudanov in The Pharoah's Daughter. Royal Ballet Tamara Rojo and Federico Bonelli in Esmeralda , including Diana And Acteon . Hamburg Ballet Sylvia Azzoni and Alexander Riabko in La Dame Aux Camelias . Paris Opera Ballet Dorothee Gilbert and Alesio Carbone in Tchaikovsky pas de deux. New York City Ballet Daniel Ulbricht in Gopak and Peter Martins choreography. National Ballet of Canade Zdenek Konvalina is in a Greek dance. 20 year old Russian Gold medalist at Varna , Daniil Simkin , is shown in several ballets. He is now at the Vienna Opera Ballet. Finally, Mariinsky ballerina, Anastasia Kolegova , is partnered by Praque dancer, Stanislav Feco .
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Tags: Mariinsky Dance Open 2008
