Tours en l'air Ballet trips 2014-15

All Tours en l'air Ballet Holidays are presented by CWT Victor Travel. 
Customers rave about Tours en l'air:  "My most sincere thank you to you Katherine for a  superb trip filled with outstanding ballet, wonderful side adventures, surprises, friendship and good cheer -- all due to your excellent planning." Ann H.(Munich and Stuttgart, April 2012)

Prospective trips for 2014-15 are listed below. For a bit more information on why you would want to have any of these trips on your "Ballet Bucket List", click on the name of the destination.

We encourage you to pre-register (no commitment required) for the trips that interest you, even potentially, by emailing me. Once we have confirmed the trip details and pricing we will send you the full itinerary. Those registered will have first opportunity at securing a place on the trip of their choice.   

 
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You can join in from anywhere in the world.

Friday 17 October – Sunday 19 October 2014

Montreal    

1 performance + up to 3 optional

Paris Opera Ballet: 
Paquita

(full-length version recreated by Pierre Lacotte after Petipa and others)

See the world's oldest and one of its best ballet companies in this  

exclusive North American engagement full of classical virtuosity

**Accompanied by prima ballerina Evelyn Hart**

For details, click here.

BOOKING DEADLINE 15 JULY 2014

 

Saturday 17 January - Saturday 24 January 2015

NewYork

5 performances

Royal Danish Ballet Principals and Soloists:
Bournonville Excerpts

New York City Ballet:

Serenade, Agon, Symphony in C (all Balanchine)

Symphonic Dances (Martins), The Cage, Andantino (both Robbins)
Cortege Hongrois (Balanchine) Donizetti Variations, La Valse, Chaconne (all Balanchine)  

Mariinsky Ballet:
Cinderella (Ratmansky) TO BE CONFIRMED

Wednesday 18 February – Saturday 28 February 2015

London
6 performances

Royal Ballet:  

Onegin

Swan Lake Choreographic Workshop

Matthew Bourne's New Adventures: 

 Edward Scissorhands

Birmingham Royal Ballet:  

Coppelia
Serenade (Balanchine), Lyric Pieces (Lang), In the Upper Room (Tharp) 

Friday 6 March – Monday 9 March 2015

San Francisco

2 performances

San Francisco Ballet:

 

The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (Forsythe), Variations for Two Couples (van Manen),

World Premiere (Myles Thatcher),The Kingdom of the Shades from

 

La Bayadère (Petipa)

Dances at a Gathering (Robbins), Hummingbird (Scarlett)

Thursday 26 March – Saturday 4 April 2015

Vienna & Prague (daytrips to Bratislava and Dresden)

5 performances

Vienna State Ballet:

 Swan Lake (Nureyev)

Slovak National Theatre Ballet:

Romeo & Juliet (Moricone)

Dresden Semperoper Ballet:

Giselle (Dawson)

Czech National Ballet:

Soldiers' Mass (Kylian), Guru (Konvalinka), Stabat Mater (Zuska)

Romeo and Juliet (Zuska)

Thursday 23 April – Friday 1 May 2015

Munich and Stuttgart

5 performances

Bavarian State Ballet:

Paquita (Ratmansky)

Midsummer Night's Dream (Neumeier)

Scheherazade (Fokine), Les Biches (Nijinska), Once upon an ever after (Kohler)

Bavarian State Ballet Junior Company:

Mixed program

Stuttgart Ballet:

All Cranko: Initials R.B.M.E, Opus 1, Concerto for Flute and Harp, From Holberg's Time

Thursday 25 June - Sunday 28 June 2015

New York

4 performances

Royal Ballet:
Don Quixote

Mixed program: Works by McGregor, Scarlett, Wheeldon

American Ballet Theatre:
TBA

Friday 3 July - Sunday 12 July 2015

Hamburg  6 performances

Hamburg Ballet:  

Shakespeare Dances (Neumeier)

Death in Venice (Neumeier)

  Winterreise (Neumeier)

  Giselle

  Othello (Neumeier) 

Guest company TBA

mid-July 2015, 3 days

Saratoga Springs (upstate New York)

3 performances

New York City Ballet:

 

TBA

Other trips may be added as ballet companies announce their seasons. To be the first to know when a trip is announced, sign up for our mailing list.

To get an idea of what a typical Tours en l'air trip is like, you can see the brochures for some of our past trips by clicking on the following links:

http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2013/10/copenhagen-hamburg-ballet-trip-now.html  http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2012/01/stuttgart-munich-ballet-trip-now.html
http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2014/01/ballet-weekend-in-new-york-may-2014-now.html 

and an account of our San Francisco 2013 trip here. 

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