SEVEN SONATAS ballet by ALEXEI RATMANSKY - Maria Khoreva & Philipp Stepin

Seven Sonatas - ballet by Alexei Ratmansky Alexei Ratmansky ballet PERFORMERS Ekaterina Kondaurova, Roman Belyakov Maria Khoreva, Philip Stepin Alina Somova, Roman Malyshev Piano part - Alexander Kashpurin CREDITS Music by Domenico Scarlatti Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Lighting Designer - Brad Fields Costume Designer - Holly Hines ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE In this chamber ballet, there are no tricks and no demonstration of technical wonders. As there are no intrigues provided for by the plot, no decorations that determine the place and time of the action. Only six dancers, the pianist at the instrument on stage and the crystal lace of the dance, woven from nuances - emotional and plastic. Shades of moods are drawn with watercolors of melting poses and steps, responsive to every note of Scarlatti. Although the composer called his sonatas exercises for the development of the technique of playing the harpsichord and slyly advised not to seek depth in them, the