Jean-Pierre Bonnefous

The ballet, "Celebration," was performed in the Festival of Two Worlds at the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto, Italy with Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell (England) danced "The Sleeping Beauty" final act" in Act One. They danced Ashton's ballet, "Pas De Deux from Thais" in Act Two. Violette Verdy and he (France) danced Robbins' new dance, "Bagatelles" to Beethoven's music. Carla Fracci and Paolo Bortoluzzi (Italy); Patricia McBride and Helgi Tomasson (United States) danced Robbins' "Afternoon of a Faun" in Act One. They danced Balanchine's "Tchaikovsky's Pas De Deux" in Act Two. Malika Sabirova and Muzafar Bourkhanov (Soviet Union) danced "The Corsair Pas De Deux" in the cast. They danced Petipa/Minkus in display piece from "Don Quixote." They all danced in the finale with Ivanov's adagio from "Swan Lake" Act Two. Jerome Robbins was director. Rouben Ter-Arutunian was scenery designer.