Announcing Tours en l'air Ballet Holidays 2019-2020 season! Please email toursenlair@gmail.com to let me know which of these trips you would like and might be available for. This is not a commitment, just an expression of interest.
Tours
en l'air Ballet Holidays
small-group
packages include
premium
ballet tickets, accommodation,
some
meals, sightseeing, and special behind-the-scenes ballet experiences.
Happy
ballet lovers have enjoyed 39 such holidays in the last nine years.
Typically
our groups, which vary in size from 10 to 30 participants, are
constituted of about half returning clients (many of whom have gone
on several Tours en l'air trips) and
half
new clients.
Guaranteed
single-occupancy accommodation available on payment of single
supplement
Travellers
wishing to share will be put in touch with one another.
Contact
Katherine Barber
email
toursenlair@gmail.com
phone
416-693-4496
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2019
New York
Friday October 4 - Sunday October 6, 2019
(Canadian Thanksgiving is October 14)
(Canadian Thanksgiving is October 14)
3 days, 2 nights, 4 performances
New York City Ballet:
All Balanchine: Valse Fantaisie, Kammermusik No. 2, Union Jack
Dances at a Gathering (Robbins), Everywhere We Go (Peck)
Serenade, Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 (both Balanchine), Summerspace (Cunningham)
Opus 19/The Dreamer (Robbins), New Lovette, New Liang, Symphony in C (Balanchine)
This will probably be the only Tours en l'air New York trip of the 2019-20 season.
2020
Berlin and Dresden
March 14 - 22, 2020
9 days, 8 nights
9 days, 8 nights
4 performances
Berlin State Ballet:
La Bayadere (Petipa, reconstructed by Ratmansky)
The Sleeping Beauty (Petipa, staged by Marcia Haydée)
Dresden Semperoper Ballet:
The Four Temperaments (Balanchine), Black Milk (Naharin), new Fernandez, Errand into the Maze (Graham)
Ballet Chemnitz:
Swan Lake (Peci)
March 29 - April 9, 2020
11 days, 10 nights
4 performances
"I love Paris in the springtime..." (Who doesn't?)
Paris Opera Ballet School:
Coppelia
Paris Opera Ballet:
all Balanchine: Concerto Barocco, The Four Temperaments, Serenade
Dutch National Ballet:
Four Seasons (Dawson), Yugen (McGregor), new Arques
Nederlands Dans Theater 2:
mixed program
Milan and Rome
Wednesday May 6 - Saturday May 16, 2020
Munich
Munich Ballet Week
Ballet Chemnitz:
Swan Lake (Peci)
Paris and Amsterdam
March 29 - April 9, 2020
11 days, 10 nights
4 performances
"I love Paris in the springtime..." (Who doesn't?)
Paris Opera Ballet School:
Coppelia
Paris Opera Ballet:
all Balanchine: Concerto Barocco, The Four Temperaments, Serenade
Dutch National Ballet:
Four Seasons (Dawson), Yugen (McGregor), new Arques
Nederlands Dans Theater 2:
mixed program
Milan and Rome
Wednesday May 6 - Saturday May 16, 2020
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Ballet of La Scala:
Romeo and Juliet (MacMillan)
Rome Opera Ballet:
Suite en Blanc (Lifar), Serenade (Balanchine), Bolero (Pastor)
Note that I do not usually offer European trips with only two performances, but I am constrained by the company's schedules. Up to you to decide whether you are interested in a ballet trip with not very much ballet!
Romeo and Juliet (MacMillan)
Rome Opera Ballet:
Suite en Blanc (Lifar), Serenade (Balanchine), Bolero (Pastor)
Note that I do not usually offer European trips with only two performances, but I am constrained by the company's schedules. Up to you to decide whether you are interested in a ballet trip with not very much ballet!
Munich
Munich Ballet Week
May 23 - June 1, 2020
10 days, 9 nights, 8 performances
10 days, 9 nights, 8 performances
Bavarian State Ballet:
Coppelia (Roland Petit)
Pictures at an Exhibition (Ratmansky), New Dawson, TBA
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Wheeldon)
Jewels (Balanchine)
Swan Lake (Barra)
Spartacus (Grigorovich)
The Lady of the Camellias (Neumeier)
Bayerisches Junior Ballett München and Ballet School: mixed program
Vienna
(day trips to Brno, Czech Republic, and Bratislava, Slovakia)
(day trips to Brno, Czech Republic, and Bratislava, Slovakia)
June 4 - 12, 2020
9 days, 8 nights
9 days, 8 nights
5 performances
Vienna State Ballet:
Coppelia
Sylvia (Legris)
Contemporary Mixed Program
Ballet of the National Theatre of Brno:
Radio and Juliet (Clug)
Ballet of the National Theatre of Slovakia:
Giselle
London
June 12 - 21, 2020
10 days, 9 nights
10 days, 9 nights
Royal Ballet:
Preludes (Ratmansky), Tombeaux (Bintley), Symphonic Dances (Scarlett)
Birmingham Royal Ballet:
Don Quixote
Theme and Variations (Balanchine), Chacona (Montero), new Cardim
English National Ballet
Swan
Lake
in the round at Royal Albert Hall
Royal Opera House Young Talent Festival:
programs by European Junior Companies TBA
Other possible performances by English National Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, and other companies TBA
What
happy ballet lovers have to say 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."
A.
H., 2012
"Just
wanted to say the trip to Germany was fantastic. I have been on many
ballet trips and this was the best thought out and best organised I
have ever been on. Thank you so much. I had a wonderful time and I
hope to travel with you many times in the future." - V. B.,
2018
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Tours
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email: toursenlair@gmail.com
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