American Ballet Theatre – Emirates Palace Mandarin Oriental, Abu Dhabi Island and Internal Islands City

About this event

American Ballet Theatre appears at Abu Dhabi Festival in an Arab World Premiere mixed bill. The evening features four repertory works—Frederick Ashton’s Birthday Offering (to Glazunov), Jiří Kylián’s Nuages (to Debussy), Brady Farrar’s Trio Élégiaque (to Rachmaninoff), and Paquita in a staging by Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa—charting a journey from classical to contemporary and back again. Presented at Emirates Palace Mandarin Oriental, the performance lasts approximately 1 hour 30 minutes with assigned seating. No named cast or design team is published; the focus is ABT’s dancers and the curated programme.

Cast & creative

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  Choreographer

  Natalia Makarova
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  Composer

  Alexander Glazunov
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  Composer

  Claude Debussy
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  Composer

  Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
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  Composer

  Édouard Deldevez
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  Composer

  Aloisius Ludwig Minkus
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  Librettist

  Paul Foucher