Description: Russian composers and choreographers have long inspired the ballet stage with their mastery of music and movement. The apex of the Stravinsky/Balanchine collaboration, Agon is an electric masterpiece, ever contemporary in its athletic competitiveness. The Kirov Ballet's Alexey Miroshnichenko introduces a new story to a composition by Rodion Shchedrin titled Lady with a Lapdog. A spectacular exhibition featuring both Hungarian czardas and a court of regal ballerinas and cavaliers, Cortege Hongrois develops from a folk-stylized processional to a grand pas de deux in the classical tradition.