It was a great surprise when we found advertising and promotion for a tour calling itself Le Plus Grands Ballets Classique using images of the dancers and the name of Moscow City Ballet.
Moscow City Ballet has recently finished a very successful eight week tour of the United Kingdom with sell-out performances and has returned to Moscow The company and dancers are not touring France at this time.
The ticket agent site for selling tickets (fnac France) responded to us immediately, explaining that producers and venues gave the picture/ images for events that fnac are selling. They confirmed they would remove the image immediately.
It is very likely that the venues on the tour and publicity already out are still claiming the forthcoming performances as Moscow City Ballet which will be misleading for the ticket-buying public.
We are contacting all the theatres that we can find advertised and asking them to display a public notice that this company is not Moscow City Ballet and to ask the venues to tell the ticket buying public who the company actually is.
The tour venues we can find at present are :
Ultimate Alexpo Grenoble 13th March ; Neptune Palace Toulon 15th March ; Arcadium Annecy 16th March ; Micropolis Besancon 17th March ; Millesium Epernay 18th March ; Hall of Pubs Bar Le Duc 19th March ; Arena Metz 20th March ; Place des Arts, Rueil Malmaison; Palace de Congress Marseille 25th March ; Acropolis S Apollon Nice 26th March ; Palace of Congress Les Bains 27th March ; Bocapole Bressure 31st March ; Vinci Tours 1st April ; City of Congress Nantes 2nd April ; Congress Auditorium Angers 2rd April ; Palace of Congress Le Mans 5th April ; Casino Arras 6th April; Auditorium Amiens 7th April ; Zenith Arena Lille 8th April ; Gayant Expo Douai Cedex 9th April; Elispace Beauvais 10th April ; Casino de Paris Paris 11th April ; Minotaur Vendome 13th April ; Dial Evreux 14th April ; The Cube Parcs des Expos Troyes 15th April ; Zenith de Dijon Dijon 16th April ; PMC Erasmus Hall Strasbourg 17th April.
Patricia Murray-Bett
Classical Events Ltd
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