Interview to Dmitry Zagrebin

Dmitry Zagrebin as Basilio in D.Q. Pas de Deux for Ibstage
Photo: Josep Guindo

During our last trip to Sweden, we had the chance to meet Dmitry Zagrebin, principal dancer of the Royal Swedish Ballet. It was a sunny Sunday in Stockholm when reaching the end of the Summer. It was Dmitry day off so we decided to meet in one of these nice coffees in Sodermalm, not far from the SoFo where he lives. 

Dmitry was born in Moscow and has been involved in the dance world since he was a child. An important reason for that is the fact that his parents and grandparents were professional dancers at Bolshoi Ballet, he studied at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, where he combined his dance studies with teacher studies of Master of ballet. 

Dmitry with Rebecca Storani in D.Q.
Ibstage. Photo: Sila Avvakum

After he graduated, he joined the Bolshoi Ballet at the age of 18 and he had the change to work with Alexei Ratmansky, who was leading the company at that time. In 2015 he moved to Sweden to join the Royal Swedish Ballet, where he is currently principal dancer. When we met he was performing Marcia Haydee’s Sleeping Beauty in the Kungliga Operan, in the role of Prince Desiree.

Sylvia Julià: After your experience in Russia and Sweden, which differences de you see between the two countries regarding how they live the Ballet?

Dmitry Zagrevin: Booth theaters are very old so when you get to dance on stage you feel similar atmosphere, that kind of amazing spirit you never get in concert halls. 

S.J.: Which is your routine as a dancer in Stockholm with the Swedish Ballet?

D.Z.: Starting from mid August, the schedule is quite tight, specially this season. From next week we will already start rehearsing a Triple Bill with works from Jiří Kylián, Angelin Preljocaj and Lukáš Timulak, while we are performing Sleeping Beauty, and in few weeks we will start rehearsing the Nutcracker. 

Two years ago the company used to tour, but not any more, currently all performances take place in Stockholm Opera house, but when I have free time and permission from work I’m always open to go somewhere else to join interesting projects, on my own.

Dmitry in Ibstage with D.Q.
Photo: Sila Avvakum

S.J.: During your life you have won several awards, the last one in 2014 and it was the Gold Medal at International Baltic Ballet Competition in Riga. What these achievements have represented in your professional career? 

D.Z.: It’s always an opportunity to challenge yourself technically, physically and artistically, but it’s also very good to meet other colleagues from other territories and see how they dance and how they move, to make connections and meet friends. Even if it’s a competitive environment it is in a good way and I mainly do it for fun.

S.J.: In your repertory we can find leading roles in very important classical productions but you have also performed Jiri Kylian, Ratmansky and also Bournonville repertory. Which would be your favorite one or the most special one for you?

D.Z.: With Bolshoi Ballet I had the chance to dance Mercutio in Yuri Grigorovich version of Romeo & Juliet and it was an amazing experience to participate in this production and to share studio with Yuri Grigorovich. In Moscow I also danced Jiri Kylian’s Symphony of Psalms and Ratmansky’s Russian Season, this last one in my second season with Bolshoi. Most leading roles I performed when I arrived to Sweden : Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, and I will perform Jiri Kylian Wings of wax in November.

Here in Sweden, about a year ago, I also performed one of the leading roles in Bournonville’s Ponte Molle, renovated by Dinna Bjørn and Frank Andersen. That was an amazing experience but also quite challenging because I had to add some steps to the Bournonville’s piece, just because there were no steps in the original scrip. Frank and Dinna gave me instructions about how it should look like, how it should start and where were the important places of the choreography, for example, they told me this movement has to end up in a knee and I had two eights in the middle to fill with my own steps. This was a responsibility and a personal contribution to the Bournonville piece.

Dmitry and Rebecca in D.Q, for Ibstage
Photo: Josep Guindo

A very special and super different role I remember it was a small role in Mats Ek’s Juliet and Romeo where I had the chance to dance with Ana Laguna on stage. It was ... I don’t know how to explain it... how honored and how gifted I felt when I’d got to dance on stage with Ana Laguna in this master piece of Mats Ek, it really has a special place in my memory. I’m happy I embraced the opportunity to be involved in Mats Ek production and I would like to work with him again in the future.

S.J.: How do you prepare a role? Especially those that have quite a lot of acting.

D.Z.: It really depends which role it is, in my opinion quite often acting roles in the classical ballet are over-rated, because you have a limited amount of music and you have a choreography steps that has to be precisely danced, let's say you have two eights in the music to show that "I will go there" or "I love you" or "I'm leaving" and it has to be exactly in the music, every single gesture, and it will be enough, all the audience will recognize it, they will understand the movements. Of course you need to know choreography, to be physically well prepared and you need to know the ballet you are doing, but sometimes when you think too much, when you over-rate your acting, you can lose the focus on the precision of the movements and music. 

You can take inspiration from other dancers but never copy. In my experience, it won't come up from the first performance, from your premier. I did Sleeping Beauty premier last season and I repeat it now and in main scenes and in certain movements I feel much calmer, I feel that it's much easier for me to do it, it all calm down.

Dmitry Zagrebin in D,Q. for Ibstage
Photo: Sila Avvakum

S.J.: You are performing Prince Desirée in Marcia Haydee’s version of Sleeping Beauty with the Swedish Ballet, how was your experience working with her? Marcia is very interested in the acting side of the ballet dancers, what do you think? 

D.Z.: It was an amazing experience to dance with Marcia, I adore her, she is gorgeous. When I was rehearsing Price Desirée she told me "you don't need to do this particular step, you can change it and do it how you feel it, but you have to look beautiful". Regarding the acting part in this ballet, of course in any company many dancers can step in and do 32 fouettés, but to be a true principal dancer it's more than that, so I totally agree with Marcia, but all this technical staff has to be there as well.

S.J.: As a dancer, you dedicate most of your time to dancing, training, rehearsing, travelling, ... but what other things you like to do when you have some free time?

D.Z.: Movies, reading,... but no physical exercise. You need to be smart to not to hurt yourself and be in shape. You need to work with your brain all the time and learn from experience, and sometimes don't go for everything and maybe don't over-rate your acting on stage (he smiles). 

S.J.: Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Do you see yourself linked to dance all your life?

D.Z.: I have a diploma as a Ballet Master, so I could teach in a company. Taking my mother advice, I divided my time between the work at Bolshoi Theater and my graduation as a teacher at Bolshoi Academy. But now I can't say what I will do in the future, only that I will share my dance as long as I can. When I was 12 I played the role of little Mozart , a leading role in the opera production Bastien und Bastienne from Mozart, where I had to dance and I had to talk. I enjoyed a lot and felt very comfortable, so if I have any kind of opportunity related with acting I will definitely go for it, even movies, no idea, but I could do it. 

Dmitry and Rebecca in D.Q. for Ibstage Gala at Gran Teatre del Liceu.
Photo: Josep Guindo

S.J.: We had the chance to see you dancing with Rebecca Storani in the IBStage Gala in Barcelona some weeks ago and I have to say that it was amazing. How was your experience of dancing with her?

D.Z.: It was one of the best partnership experiences in my life, she is a extremely professional ballerina, very good on eye-contact on stage, when you just trust each other, you know. I have danced Don Q. many times in my life and I felt very comfortable dancing with Rebecca, she was very focused and everything went just amazing. I have to say I was shocked in a very good way. We met the same day in the morning and we went on stage after 10 minutes of checking out. She is amazing and I would love to dance with her again. 

S.J.: We are working to promote ballet in Catalonia and to have artists like you performing there it will help to achieve our goals for sure, so we hope we can see you dancing again in Barcelona or maybe performing with Ballet de Catalunya in Terrassa.

D.Z.: You have such a beautiful theater in Barcelona and it would be great to see more ballet performances there. Theater is huge and the atmosphere on stage was amazing. I really wish that ballet art can grow in Barcelona, so if I can give any help I would like to do it.

Anastasia Limenko: We try the world to be better by bringing beauty on stage

Anastasia Limenko at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona
Photo: Sila Avvakum

This is the third time that we have Anastasia Limenko at the Ibstage Galas. She tells us that she is delighted to accept their invitations, she loves Barcelona and the atmosphere that is breathed in this course of the highest level that she defines as unique worldwide and a model to follow. 

Anastasia Limenko in Black Swan. Ibstage Galas.
Photo: Josep Guindo

We cross her in the hall of the Institut del Teatre, she is the first of the great stars invited that has arrived to Barcelona and after doing a class and taking a small snack, she tells us that this may be a good time for the interview that we are suggesting. We do not miss the opportunity and chat with the very young Principal Dancer of the Stanivlasky Theater in Moscow. 

Carolina Masjuan: Anastasia, I think it is the second time you are dancing here? 

Anastasia Limenko: No, in fact it is my third time! I came twice last year because I came in July when I performed Don Quixote for the Galas at El Liceu and then I came back in September for the Galas at Theatre Grec where I danced with Kimin Kim. So now it is the third time I'm here for Ibstage. 

C.M. : Oh yes, you are right! and how it happened that we are so lucky to have you here? 

A.L. : Well in fact it was through Instagram -Anastasia is very active in this social media- that I received an invitation form Leo Sorribes. He told me that he had seen my video from Don Quixote and that he would be happy if I can join. I was very surprised as I thought that Instagram was to have fun and I was very surprised too because I was so young, only 22 years old, and this was the first invitation for such an important Gala and then when I knew I was going to share the stage with such amazing dancers as Lauren Curtbertson, Kimin Kim and so many famous and talented people I couldn't believe!! For my second time it was my premiere performing Diana and Acteon and it was a special moment for me. I have to thank vey much Xiomara Reyes and Larissa Lezhnina for their help and amazing coach. I was so lucky!! because I also had such an amazing coaches and a partner as Kimin Kim. 

Anastasia Limenko, Black Swan. Ibstage Galas.
Photo: Josep Guindo

C.M. : Incredible it was your first time on it!! you both were amazing! And now I think that you are coming from Mexico because you have participated in a Gala there as well, isn't it ? 

A.L. : Yes! I was invited by Isaac Hernández. He is an amazing dancer and it was incredible because he gives something so special not only for audience but also for us the dancers. All the crew felt so happy and this was noticed on stage because everybody gave their best and one has to note that this was for a huge audience, 20.000 people, 10.000 each of the two performances and it has been really wonderful! I got to see also a work of a wonderful choreographer, Sebastian Kloborg, whose works I really like! 

Anastasia Limenko, Black Swan. Ibstage Galas.
Photo: Josep Guindo

C.M. : We noticed this amazing ambience between all of you on Instagram!! 

A.L. : Yeahhhh because it was a so warm atmosphere. We felt as if we were friends from many years, not just few days ago … wooww I still feel that energy on me! 

C.M. : And how were you involved in dance. When did you decide to become a ballerina ? 

A.L. : It is an interesting story because I never imagined that I would be a dancer. It was a dream from my mother. Before ten years old I never imagined that I would dance as I never had seen ballet. She brought me to a Ballet School and I started to love this art. I'm grateful to her and to my teachers who gave me this passion for this art that now is part of me. I started to take classes in a school in Bielorussia and moved to Moscou at fifteen. I was prize winner in the Moscou ballet competition and was invited at the Boshoi Ballet Academy and it was a huge change for me because to change Minsk which is really a cosy, quite and confident city to Moscou which is always crowded with people in a rush and so on, it was really difficult but of course I adapted and now after nine years I feel this city to be not my home but I feel confortable there. And now I really love dancing there because it is my way, what I chose for me to be my life. 

After graduation I was invited at the Bolshoi but I knew that I had to start at the Corps and maybe spend time there so I decided to join the Stanivlasky because I knew I would get much more opportunities to grow up and because I saw that I would be able to dance many roles quickly so yes this is my first company and I'm very happy, we have a really huge repertoire and I can work to be better and better with many opportunities. 

Anastasia Limenko, Black Swan Pdd with Igor Svirko.
Ibstage Galas. Photo: Josep Guindo

C.M. : And with the new Director Laurent Hilaire, did things change much? 

A.L. : Yes they did. Laurent Hilaire has turned the company to be more European, he brings more contemporary pieces and it is really interesting because we dance works of many choreographers as Ekman, Ohan Naharin, Kylian,... so there are many many people coming to our company and it is really interesting because this is also like a challenge for us the dancers because we are a classical company and with them we are able to explore other ways of dancing 

C.M. : But I think once you said that for you classical dance is the one you love most as it is also the most demanding style... 

A.L. : Yes, yes, for me classical is the most important because it is the most dificult for our body and coordination so now I'm focussed to get more roles in classical ballet because I understand that I can do contemporary pieces a little bit later in my career. Of course I want to dance them and I really like to do contemporary pieces because you feel free with your body and you can just enjoy music and choreography but in classical you always have to be on square, feel your corps, be really clean in positions and it is the most demanding in our profession.

Anastasia in class with Ballet de
Catalunya. Photo: Sila Avvakum

I want to enlarge my repertoire now dancing more styles in classical like Petipa, Grigorovich and also more neoclassical as Balanchine to grow up because you never get enough in classical, you always can be better but in contemporary is a bit diffetrent, you can compare different dancers because each one can have their own style in contemporary, In classical it's not, the possitions are what they are and you have to follow the rules... 

C.M. : And in the Stanivlasky do you also have Cracko's, Mc Millan's, etc., in your repertoire ? 

A.L. : Yes, yes, a lot... and for me my favourite choreographer is McMillan because I really like his pieces. Mayerling, Manon, these are pieces that we have in our repertory and also Romeo and Juliet this is «my» repertoire and for me these are stories I like very much... they are my preferred characters... 

C.M. : Maybe because of their dramatic side? 

A.L. : Yes, for me it is really important because I try to do my best with my technique only because this is our language and when you feel free with the language, then you can develop much better your dramatic part. When you do not need to focuss on your turns or in how much you lift your leg, this is a kind of freedom for you body. For me the most meanful thing is to bring stories on stage to share emotions with the audience. 

I think this is the most important in our profession than to show our techique. You can see incredible stuff in circus and gymnastic and sport and they will be better than us, but in the theater we can show emotions and you should understand the meaning of the ballet, what the choreographer wants to tell. 

Anastasia Limenko, Black Swan. Ibstage Galas.
Photo: Sila Avvakum

For me it is my goal to involve more and more the audience to our art so that our art can really bright because we show people that world can also be beautiful when negative things happen. We try the world to be better with the beauty we bring. Of course our stories are about love, true love and happiness but there is also sadness, as it happens in life, and we have to accept that we can be sad but we turn sadness in a positive way, it is a different kind of sadness that can change you. You should accept that we can be sad but this can show you also how to be a better person. So yes this is the way I understand our art and for me this is the most beautiful work I can do. 

C.M. : Wooowww... this is so beautiful what you are saying.... 

A.L. : Well, this is what I really think about our profession and I feel so happy with it! 

Anastasia Limenko Black Swan.
Ibstage Galas. Photo: Sila Avvakum

C.M. : Does the company tour? 

A.L. : Now not really. Because when our direction changed they decided that we should be more in Moscou. They wanted to change a lot our company and this is impossible if you are touring. But by my own I tour. When I started my vacation, that in fact I haven't had vacations, I began with a tour in South Korea, which also was an amazing experience, then I had these Galas in Mexico and now I'm here. This is a huge treasure for me because I meet wonderful people and each person you meet can be like a teacher for you, they can change your mind and this are experiences that reach you and make you to see other things, so I really like this. 

C.M. : And how do you feel here in Ibstage with all the students and sharing the stage with them ? 

A.L. : I feel really confortable because it is my third year. In September last year we arrived at the same time with Kimin Kim so we spent a lot of time together and many dancers came earlier too but this year I'm the first and I feel a little bit lonely but I really like Spain and I do love Barcelona and everybbody here at Ibstage does their best to make me feel comfortable and I really appreciate the opportunity to perform here beacuse it is also important for me to share my dance with many different people.

I really want to wish Ibstage a good future and also to the company the Ballet de Catalunya. I understand that the situation is complicated now but I really wish them the best because they are all very nice and high professional people. This is such a really good thing for the ballet world these Ibstage courses and Galas and that a so brilliant new Company has born! 

Anastasia Limenko in class at Institut
del Teatre. Photo: Sila Avvakum

C.M. : Have you seen the company rehearsing these days? 

A.L. : Yes I saw them rehearsing with Larissa Lezhnina and I know Rebecca Storani as we met already at the first Gala and we communicated really well, we are like friends and now it is really interesting because they are creating their own version of Don Quixote. And also it is fantastic beacuse they are inviting many people to work for the company because the possibility is really nice. I think they should be at the Theater of the Liceu and that they have more advertising in Catalunya because this is an amazing opportunity for the ballet and for Catalunya. I cross my fingers so that they can develop but I think all be ok because when there is passion on what one is doing then one can only succeed!! I also think that local companies have to be involved in promoting the culture and the art, they have to give funds so that this great reality that the Ballet de Catalunya is now, can continue its amazing work. 

C.M. : And for this year Gala what will you bring on stage ? 

A.L.: Well Igor will arrive on 1st september morning. It will be the premiere for him and for us together with Black Swan and we'll rehearse only the day of the fisrt gala in the morning. But no problem, for me it is ok because when I came the first time to Ibstage it was really difficult as I flew on the night and I had two performances the same day of my arrival and then I had to fly back to Moscou immediately. This has been the hardest stuff I have had to face and I survived and all went well so I'm sure I can afford anything!! And of course we already know each other because Bolshoi and Stanivlasky are very close in Moscou and we all communicate very often, so no problem for us. I hope the audience will enjoy the Galas, I'm very happy to have been invited again. 

Nice, friendly and very cute, Anastasia agrees to be photographed with all those who ask her or she  spontaneously poses in front of the professional objective of Sila Avvakum, official photographer of the Mariinsky Theater of Sant Petesburg, who every year comes from Russia to cover Ibstage in Barcelona. The great teacher, very dear to all, Piotr Nardelli sees her and comes quickly to kiss her hand while she offers him a beautiful arabesque.

Anastasia Limenko after the interview at the Institut del Teatre.
Photo: Sila Avvakum

Anastasia takes the opportunity to discover Barcelona these days, she walks a lot, from the center to the sea and to the sea to her hotel. Yesterday she walked five hours non stop. She says that these are the few days of vacations she will have but she loves so much her job and she is so passionate with what her life is that no matter. 

We knew the amazing dancer she is and now we have discovered the so warm and nice human being behind. Thank you very much and please come back soon Anastasia! The Catalan audience really loves you !!

Ibstage 2018 is starting

Ibstage 217 Corps de Ballet at Teatre Grec Barcelona
Photo: Josep Guindo

IBSTAGE 2018 STARTS - TENTH EDITION 

INSTITUT DEL TEATRE: from the 13th to the 30th of August 

GRAN TEATRE DEL LICEU: 1st and 2nd of September 

Ibstage at the gates of its 10th Edition. With news, new challenges and a very special show

Press Release

Catalunya Ballet in Fast Avance by Leo Sorribes.
Photo: Josep Guindo

Ibstage starts this August with an outstanding event, such as celebrating its tenth edition this year. They have not been easy years since it started in Italy and even less, since its landing in Barcelona. Even so, it is indisputable to take a very positive look at everything that has been achieved especially from artistic, cultural and educational points of view. 

Ibstage is not just a more than realistic picture of what classical dance represents internationally speaking, with an exceptional program, as usual, destined for talents around the world and which offers a product of unique qualities that nobody else has achieved yet, but it is also the image of what it wants to be here, with the due recognition inside and outside, with an international and, at the same time, native concept that it intends Barcelona and Catalonia to be home of first rank dance productions and at the same time attracting the talent of everywhere, needed to make these creations come true. 

Ibstage 2017 - Gonzalo García
Photo: Sila Avvakum

This young association is not only young, experienced and professional but with a great entrepreneurial spirit, risky and with the absolute capacity to break schemes year after year, despite conditions that are more than adverse and in times of great convulsions that not only affect them financially but that also drive them to question their own vision about the true lace here, where the capitalist and competitive mentality of our society and mistreatment of culture forces them to look for niches where nobody thought they could be, apart from encouraging the undoubted existence of a cultural audience, but that it must be nourished and well treated if you do not want to let it die, disenchant, or even worse conform. 

So, Ibstage has started for the sixth year in Barcelona with a history on its shoulders that sometimes many describe as an impossible feat. If something has Ibstage, is that it is not just a constant focus on landmarks that are almost unattainable here, but that it also follows its activity without the minimum conditions and structures allowing to ensure its subsistence which is always subject to results more that optimistics. 

Ibstage students at class

THE NEW COURSE: 

It is taught at the Institut del Teatre from the 13th to the 30th of August, with the presence of great teachers of a renowned professional careers both in the educational and artistic fields worldwide. An artistic direction shared between the great maestro Elias Garcia, born in Sabadell, but with an international career that has led him to coach leading figures of dance, and Xiomara Reyes, the former ABT principal dancer and director of the Washington Ballet School. Among other great renowned figures, such as Rinat Imaev, Larissa Lezhnina, Piotr Nardelli, Yumiko Takeshima, Maria Luisa Arias, who are among many other masters and repetiteurs of the choreographies that will be presented at the final Gala. 

This year, the course has once again great support of such as that of the Institut del Teatre (Diputació de Barcelona), the Fund of Scholarships of the Banco Sabadell Foundation, which is still committed to the young talents who attend the course, the Generalitat de Catalunya and especially Yumiko, Official Sponsor and renowned international dancewear brand, together with collaborations with companies based in Catalonia that provide logistical support through an improvement in the services offered by Ibstage to its participants with very advantageous conditions. Without all of them Ibstage would not be possible, as well as its growing participation so necessary for the sustainability of the project. 

Girls enjoying at Ibstage

THE GALA | TENTH EDITION | NOVELTIES AND NEW CHALLENGES 

Why Ibstage: Ibstage was founded by Leo Sorribes and Elias Garcia in Italy and after 4 editions they moved to Barcelona. Ibstage's great goal has always been to consolidate classical and contemporary dance of quality in Catalonia, which after 6 years has given a first fruit full of hopes and that since very recently has started to create magnificent expectations in this regard. To retain the talent of our country, to capture figures and talent from all over the world, to import the best dance teaching techniques, to create own productions, to train dancers throughout all their career long, are some of the challenges planned to achieve. 

After 3 years preparing a really arid land, the founders of Ibstage have committed themselves in the creation of a company in Catalonia with which it is intended to give a totally different approach to the state classic company lacking the margin of maneuver so indispensable to achieve ambitious artistic milestones: The Ballet of Catalonia.

Anastasia Limenko at the Ibstage 2017 Gala.
Photo: Josep Guindo

For this, in this tenth edition, the Ibstage Galas will offer at the Gran Teatre del Liceu a triple artistic offer: Young talents from large national and international academies, showing some of the best choreographies in the repertoire presented in the last editions: La Bayadere, El Corsario, Paquita and Sleeping Beauty. Secondly first stars of the dance world will visit us as usual offering a repertoire selected especially for the occasion and with which we will enjoy great classical and contemporary choreographies of excellent interpretation. This year we highlight the presence of Polina Semionova, world star and currently principal dancer of ABT, and others, such as Anastasia Limenko, Miriam Ould-Braham, Semyon Chudin, Tatiana Melnik, the young Catalan dancer Martí Paixà (in the rows of the Stuttgart Ballet ), and until completing an almost overwhelming number of 12 guest dancers. 

Finally, there will be the Ballet de Catalunya offering in a so special commemorative year, a final and special touch, given the exceptional nature of its long-awaited birth. The company will also offer a choreography created by Leo Sorribes, director at the same time of Ibstage and the Ballet de Catalunya: Fast Avance, premiered on last April 28, in Terrassa 

Ibstage 2017 Corps de Ballet   

ACTIVITIES FOR THE CREATION OF PUBLIC AND DIFFUSION OF DANCE 

Ibstage stands out at educational level for its dual educational aspect of both the dance audience and the begginer one. Ibstage is basically defined as a technical-artistic improvement course aimed at students who are training in the profession of dancer, offering a top-level teaching team from prestigious schools and companies. Ibstage in addition, during the 3 weeks of the course, opens its doors to the general public, attracting dance professionals from any field, students, but also people who feel inquisitiveness about a discipline that often conceals erroneous conceptions or prejudices towards its reality, bringing common people closer is an enriching experience that allows them to convey their values ​​and knowledge of cause, as well as to foster the critical spirit of the audience. 

Mathilde Marlin and Leander Rebholz in Fast Avance
by Leo Sorribes. Photo: Josep Guindo

And finally, within the framework of the Cultural Cycle, started in 2017, a set of theoretical and practical activities are configured around several aspects allowing to understand the peculiarities of the ballet: from workshops where the basic exercises of ballet are experienced, his gesticulation in the repertoire, the photography applied to dance, the roles from the vision of the dancers who have interpreted them, the music, or witnessing the last rehearsals. All of them are taught at the same institute in days and hours that are published at the beginning of the course and to which all interested people can register online 

PRESS & MEDIA 

The press and media are invited to the Institut del Teatre from the 13th to the 30th of August to attend classes, rehearsals, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. It has to be outlined that the Ballet de Catalunya will be present throughout this period. The General Director, Artistic Directors, teachers, dancers and participating students could be interviewed. 

Students at Ibstage

From 31st August to 2th September, dancers and students will be at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. The performances of the Galas will be the day 1 at 8:30 pm and day 2 at 6:00 pm. Press Conference will be convened with the presence of the international guests invited on August 31 and Graphics ?? (leo) During the period from July 16 to August 10, interviews with the Directors (Ibstage and Ballet de Catalunya): press, radio and television, locally, autonomously and nationally. 

Others: Days 30 and 31 of July there are Auditions for the Ballet de Catalunya at the Cultural Terrassa Center with the presence of candidates from all over the world. 

Next premiere of the Ballet de Catalunya: EL QUIXOT, November 10th. 

Tickets for sale at https://ibstage.koobin.com/

For more information, please contact: 

Marina Quera: Information about Ibstage course and Ballet de Catalunya Tel: 656 846 814 

Marisol de la Orden: Press conference and interview arrangement. Tel: 639 793 927 

Carmen Tanaka: Interviews during Ibstage, August 13 to September 2nd Tel: 650 785 445