On Saturday, April 5, 2008, at 8:00 p.m the Center will present "One of
the year's indispensable ballet experiences," Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times – the Tchaikovsky Perm Ballet and Orchestra:
A basketball player can't jump without doing a plié.
Along with sharing the standards and style of the famous Kirov school, Perm's ballet school is Russia's most esteemed academy for training dancers.
300 pound football linemen increase their agility by practicing changement and tendu.
And since its inaugural performance of Giselle in 1926, Perm Ballet has evolved into one of Russia's internationally lauded ballet companies.
A shortstop does a huge chassé before releasing the ball.
The evening's dance program, Tchaikovsky Spectacular, honors that great Russian composer with highlights from some of the most spectacular ballets ever written — Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and Nutcracker
Lynn Swann, football Hall-of-Famer, was called the Baryshnikov of football.
Tchaikovsky's Perm ballet and Orchestra - only at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido – The Cultural
Heart of San Diego North.™
Compared to sports, only professional football is more physically demanding than ballet.
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