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Ballet Company of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater The Sleeping Beauty

Date: March 2-4 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA)

The court ballet in Lithuania was started in the 16th century. At the same time dance was encouraged at school theaters too. Latin school drama, which survived more than 200 years, united all the branches of the arts. Traditional plots as well as those taken from Lithuanian history were danced then. Ballet in Lithuania was truly revived in the autumn of 1920, when Lithuanian Opera and Ballet Theater was founded, opened on Dec 31, 1920 with the premiere of opera La Traviata by Verdi. It is the standard of the classical ballet. It requires from the dancers an impeccable taste of style and rounded positions of arms and legs.