{"id":29555,"date":"2017-07-06T15:54:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T19:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/?p=29555"},"modified":"2017-07-06T15:54:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T19:54:04","slug":"veronika-part-to-give-final-performances-with-abt-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/2017\/07\/06\/veronika-part-to-give-final-performances-with-abt-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Veronika Part To Give Final Performances With Abt This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Farewell Performance Scheduled for Saturday Matinee, July 8 at Metropolitan Opera House<\/strong>
\nNew York, July 2017\u00a0– Veronika Part, a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre since 2009, will retire from the Company on the final day of the 2017 Spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House. For her farewell performance, Part will dance the Preghiera in George Balanchine\u2019s\u00a0Mozartiana<\/em>\u00a0opposite Blaine Hoven and Arron Scott on Saturday, July 8 at 2:00PM.<\/p>\n

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Veronika Part began her early training in artistic gymnastics before entering the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 1988. Part graduated in 1996 and joined the Kirov Ballet. She was promoted to soloist in 1998. Her repertoire with the Kirov included Nikiya in\u00a0La Bayad\u00e8re<\/em>, the Queen of the Dryads in\u00a0Don Quixote<\/em>, Myrta, Moyna and Zulma in in\u00a0Giselle<\/em>, Raymonda and Henrietta in\u00a0Raymonda<\/em>, the Lilac Fairy in\u00a0The Sleeping Beauty<\/em>\u00a0and Odette-Odile in\u00a0Swan Lake<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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She also danced roles in\u00a0Balanchine\u2019s\u00a0Apollo<\/em>\u00a0(Terpsichore),\u00a0Jewels<\/em>\u00a0(Emeralds and Diamonds),\u00a0Symphony in C<\/em>\u00a0(second movement) and\u00a0Serenade<\/em>, and in John Neumeier’s\u00a0The Sounds of Empty Pages<\/em>. She was the winner of the BALTIKA Prize in 1999.<\/p>\n

Part joined American Ballet Theatre as a Soloist in August 2002 and was promoted to Principal Dancer in May 2009. Her roles with the Company include Terpsichore in\u00a0Apollo<\/em>, Nikiya in\u00a0La Bayad\u00e8re<\/em>, Zina in\u00a0The Bright Stream<\/em>, the Fairy Godmother in Frederick Ashton’s\u00a0Cinderella<\/em>,\u00a0Twig in James Kudelka’s\u00a0Cinderella<\/em>, Prayer in\u00a0Copp\u00e9lia<\/em>, an Odalisque in\u00a0Le Corsaire<\/em>, Kitri, Mercedes and the Queen of the Driads in\u00a0Don Quixote<\/em>, the Glove Seller in\u00a0Ga\u00eet\u00e9 Parisienne<\/em>,\u00a0Myrta in\u00a0Giselle<\/em>, Queen of Shemakhan in\u00a0The Golden Cockerel<\/em>,\u00a0An Episode in His Past in\u00a0Jardin aux Lilas<\/em>, Manon in\u00a0Lady of the Camellias<\/em>, Lescaut’s Mistress in\u00a0Manon<\/em>, His Wife in\u00a0The Moor’s Pavane<\/em>, the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Snow Queen in Kevin McKenzie’s\u00a0The Nutcracker<\/em>, Clara, the Princess in Alexei Ratmansky’s\u00a0The Nutcracker<\/em>, Emilia in\u00a0Othello,<\/em>\u00a0Other Dances<\/em>, the Chief Nursemaid in\u00a0Petrouchka<\/em>, Eldest Sister in\u00a0Pillar of Fire<\/em>, the Polovtsian Princess in the\u00a0Polovtsian Dances<\/em>, the Siren in\u00a0Prodigal Son<\/em>, Raymonda, Henrietta, the White Lady and the Lead Spanish Dancer in\u00a0Raymonda<\/em>, Lady Capulet in\u00a0Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, Princess Aurora and the Lilac Fairy in\u00a0The Sleeping Beauty<\/em>, Odette-Odile in\u00a0Swan Lake<\/em>, the Sylph in\u00a0La Sylphide<\/em>, Sylvia and Terpsichore in\u00a0Sylvia<\/em>, the leading roles in\u00a0Les Sylphides<\/em>,\u00a0Symphonie Concertante<\/em>,\u00a0Ballet Imperial<\/em>,\u00a0The Leaves Are Fading<\/em>,\u00a0Mozartiana<\/em>,\u00a0Symphony in C<\/em>, \u00a0Birthday Offering, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Duets, The Garden of Villandry,\u00a0Overgrown Path, Seven Sonatas<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Symphony #9<\/em>.\u00a0 She created Natalia in\u00a0On the Dnieper<\/em>, the\u00a0Blue Pas de Deux<\/em>, leading roles in\u00a0Bach Partita,\u00a0Kaleidoscope, Monotones II\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Triptych\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0featured roles in\u00a0Dumbarton<\/em>,\u00a0Sinfonietta\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Within You Without You: A Tribute to George Harrison<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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American Ballet Theatre\u2019s Spring 2017 at the Metropolitan Opera House continues through July 8.\u00a0 Tickets are available online, at the Met box office or by phone at 212-362-6000.\u00a0 The Metropolitan Opera House is located on Broadway between 64th<\/sup>\u00a0and 65th<\/sup>\u00a0streets in New York City.\u00a0 For more information, visit ABT\u2019s website at www.abt.org.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Farewell Performance Scheduled for Saturday Matinee, July 8 at Metropolitan Opera House New York, July 2017\u00a0– Veronika Part, a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre since 2009, will retire from the Company on the final day of the 2017 Spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House. For her farewell performance, Part will dance the Preghiera in George Balanchine\u2019s\u00a0Mozartiana\u00a0opposite Blaine Hoven and Arron Scott on Saturday, July 8 at 2:00PM. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Veronika Part began her early training in artistic gymnastics before entering the Vaganova Ballet Academy in 1988. Part graduated in 1996 and joined the Kirov Ballet. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"views":2852,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29559,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29555\/revisions\/29559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}