This years spectacular holiday performance is “Sleeping Beauty,” a wonderful classic ballet, the music composed by Tchaikovsky and to be performed by world class top international ballet stars from Russia, Japan and Korea.
Performances are scheduled for Dec. 4 to 6, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, in the Theater Hall of Palms Resort.
Shows will start promptly every night from 7 p.m. The doors will open at 6:30 p.m. each night.
Tickets are available from parents of Glushko’s students who will also have roles in the performances.
You can also buy tickets from all Shell gas stations and Shirley’s Restaurant in Garapan.
This year. there will be two evenings set aside as ballet nights for the whole family on both Friday and Sunday, Dec. 4 and 6.
On Saturday evening, Dec. 5, there will be a fundraising ballet and cocktail show as well as raffle.
The two family ballet nights will have two parts:
• “Sleeping Beauty” the ballet, with participation of 60 students from Glushko’s Academy, plus the international ballet professionals.
• The international ballet stars.
Tickets are $15 each for adults and $10 each for children three to 12 years old.
For the fundraising ballet raffle and cocktail show on Saturday, Dec. 5, there will only be performances from professional ballet stars from Russia, Japan and Korea.
Tickets are $35 per adult and $15 per child. The entrance ticket price will include one alcoholic or one non-alcoholic beverage of your choice.
The academy is planning to have up to 10 international ballet professionals perform during each of the three nights of concerts at the Palms Resort.
This year, the academy will have the famous Russian professionals Margarita Rudina and Alexey Nasadovich, who also performed here last year.
They are currently working as ballet principals for the world class Bratislava Ballet in the Slovak Republic.
Graciously and due to their love for Saipan, they have again agreed to fly over 10,000 miles just to perform for the local community.
Also performing are the brother and sister team from Osaka, Japan: Asami and Keisuke Takai.
They are currently working in Dublin, Ireland.
The Takagi Ballet School from Tokyo, Japan, for its part, will send four dancers.
In addition, the number one ballet school of South Korea, the Universal Ballet Academy, will present two of its best dancers.
The production costs to stage this event amount to tens of thousands of dollars.
However, the academy said, “thanks to our parents, and the generous financial contributions from our kind sponsors, we are able to afford to stage what would otherwise be un-achievable: an excellent professional performance for our small Island community.”
Among the sponsors are the Palms Resort, Delta Airlines, Asiana Airlines, Wells Fargo, Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate, Bank of Guam, First Hawaiian Bank, Burger & Comer PC CPA, Hyatt Regency Saipan, Joeten Shopping Center, Triple J Motors, Tooth Works, DFS Galleria, KZMI 103.9 My FM, and KSPN Channel 2 News.
Glushko’s Academy of Performing Arts wishes each sponsor “our collective, heartfelt and special ‘thank-you’s.’ Without you, none of this could have been possible.”
For more information, call 483-6271 or e-mail [email protected]
