Today two extracts from the new DVD GISELLE, filmed in March 2007

in Pretoria (South Africa) have been placed on Irina`s website.



To see the Giselle variation from the First Act look in the VIDEO section



Pas de deux of Giselle and Count Albrecht from the Second Act is

available for IK CLUB members only

In late June, at the behest of the organisers of The Henley Festival of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, Irina flew into London for a press conference and photo-shoot in order to promote the forthcoming event.



The festival will take place from 31st August to 2nd September in the open air on a picturesque part of the Thames, and Saint Petersburg Ballet Theatre’s Swan Lake with Irina Kolesnikova dancing Odette – Odile is a most eagerly awaited event. The City of Oxford Orchestra will be providing the orchestral accompaniment. Forty six metre wide screens will be set up so that members of the audience who are sitting a long way from the stage can watch the ballet.

On the 16th July, on the stage of the Pretoria State Theatre in South Africa a recording of the ballet “Giselle” was made for DVD with Irina Kolesnikova in the lead role.



The DVD should come out in mid June.



The part of Albert was danced by Dmitriy Akulinin, that of Hans by Dymchik Saykeev and Mirta by Yuliya Petrova. From the 1st September the DVD will be on sale in the Royal Opera House shop in Covent Garden.