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[email protected] MIAMI CITY BALLET TO MAKE ITS DEBUT IN PARIS, FRANCE WITH A THREE-WEEK SUMMER SEASON. SEVENTEEN COMMAND PERFORMANCES AT THE THEATRE du CHATELET JULY 6-23, 2011. Miami, FL (Feb. 7, 2011) – Edward Villella, Artistic Director of Miami City Ballet, announced today that the company will climax its 25th anniversary year with an unprecedented three-week season in Paris, France - the company's first visit there. The company’s fifty dancers will present seventeen command performances over three weeks, July 6-23, 2011. They will be dancing at the renowned Chatelet Theater, where in 1909 Diaghilev's Ballets Russes gave their first performances, and where two years later, Petrouchka had its World Premiere. As the sole participant of the 2011 Les Etes de la Danse festival, which has in recent years hosted Alvin Ailey, San Francisco Ballet, and Ana Laguna & Mikhail Baryshnikov, Miami City Ballet will focus primarily on George Balanchine, for whom Mr. Villella starred at the New York City Ballet for many years. Among the eight Balanchine ballets in the repertory – including the world-famous The Four Temperaments and Theme and Variations – are three major works that as far as we're aware, have never before been seen in Paris: the 1951 doom-laden La Valse, to Ravel; Symphony in Three Movements, created for New York City Ballet's 1972 Stravinsky Festival (it featured Mr. Villella); and Ballet Imperial, Balanchine's ultimate tribute to Tschaikovsky and Petipa.