“Firebird” will represent the narrative ballet side of ABT on its Segerstrom triple bill. And that’s where this former San Pedro Ballet standout appears to be headed.ĪBT’s world premiere of “Firebird” will be presented Thursday through April 1 at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa.Ĭhoreographer Alexei Ratmansky’s new production of “Firebird,” the great one-act ballet set to the entire score of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Firebird,” has been created around three ABT ballerinas: Natalia Osipova, formerly of Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet, where Ratmansky once served as artistic director and two rising stars – Copeland and Isabella Boylston. “Firebird” is the type of dramatic, bravura role that can make a ballerina a star. Copeland faces left and focuses her gaze on the horizon.Īs well she should. Computer-generated flames shoot out from her back as she dances en pointe. There she is, the former San Pedro resident, shown dressed in a red unitard and a red-feathered headdress. American Ballet Theatre’s Misty Copeland is the poster girl for “Firebird.”
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