Hi Everyone! This is my first posting, but I received an announcement yesterday that Mikko Nissinen will be participating in a panel discussion for the FleetBoston Celebrity Series and the Wang Center for the Performing Arts. The title of the discussion is "Dancing Through Time: The Kirov, St. Petersburg, and Ballet into the 21st Century." The discussion is on Monday, November 10 at 7 PM at the Schubert Theatre. It's free and open to the public.

In addition to Mikko, other participants are Makhar Vaziev, Director of the Kirov Ballet; Julie Buckler, Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at Harvard University; and Harlow Robinson, Professor of History and Modern Languages at Northeastern University.

Should be interesting!

Blondie

Hi, Blondie -- welcome to Ballet Alert! and thank you for posting that. It does sound interesting -- someone else had mentioned the panel discussion a week or so ago. I hope you go and tell us about it (open invitation to all, of course)