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THE MOSCOW FESTIVAL BALLET PERFORMS “CINDERELLA”

Audiences are invited to come to the ball when The Moscow Festival Ballet performs “Cinderella” at the Stockton Performing Arts Center on March 19th.

Show time is 7 p.m.  Tickets are priced at $25 and $40 and may be ordered online at www.stockton.edu/pac or by calling the Box Office at (609) 652-9000.  The Box Office is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and an hour and a half before the performance.  For Group Sales, call (609) 652-4786.

The magic and fantasy of the beloved, rags-to-riches fairy tale comes to life as the Moscow Festival Ballet takes the stage in a full-length ballet in three acts, featuring music by Sergei Prokofiev and choreography by Rostislav Zakharov. 

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With sumptuous sets, exquisite costumes and spectacular dancers, this company of dancers from across Russia brings together the highest classical elements of the great Bolshoi and Kirov Ballet companies. As the Las Vegas Review Journal said, they “deserved ‘bravos’ within minutes of the opening steps.”

The Moscow Festival Ballet was founded in 1989 when legendary principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet, Sergei Radchenko, who sought to realize his vision of a company that would bring together the highest classical elements of the Bolshoi and Kirov Ballet companies in an

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independent new company within the framework of Russian classic ballet.

Leading dancers from across the Russias have forged under Radchenko’s direction an exciting new company staging new productions of timeless classics such as “Giselle,” “Don Quixote,” “Paquita” and “Carmen.”

Since its inception, the Moscow Festival Ballet has ... completed two tours of Europe, with extraordinary receptions in Italy, France, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands.

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