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                – E. Virginia Williams, Founder

 

  • Korea Tour

    23 August 2008

    Boston Ballet toured to Korea for the first time in the summer of 2008. It was the company’s second tour to Asia. In 1980 Boston Ballet was first the American company to perform in China. The company presented a neo-classical and contemporary program at the Universal Arts Center in Seoul and Goyang Cultural Arts Complex in Gyeonggi-do, featuring Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco, Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room, and Christopher Wheeldon’s Polyphonia.

     

    Boston Ballet Korean Tour Promotional Flyer
    Kelley Potter and Yury Yanowsky in Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room
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