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The world-renowned Bejart Ballet Lausanne returns to the Athens Concert Hall with Maurice Bejart's "Magic Flute," which is being staged in Greece for the first time. In his take on the famous Mozart opera, the legendary French-born choreographer juxtaposed the innocence of childhood with the structured rigidity of the adult world. Shows start at 8 p.m.

The Greek National Opera has teamed up with Nacho Duato, artistic director of the Berlin State Ballet, to present the acclaimed Spanish choreographer's ballet "Herrumbre" (Rust) at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens. For Duato, the starting point for this ballet was a photograph of prisoners at the notorious US detention camp of Guantanamo in Cuba, which moved him to comm

SLEEPING BEAUTY, the ballet, is coming to Sofia Opera and Ballet in Bulgaria on February 8th and 9th, 2019.

Ballets de Monte-Carlo artistic director Jean-Christophe Maillot strips Sergei Prokofiev's "Cinderella" down to its bare bones in a reading of the classic tale by Charles Perrault that treats the characters like real people rather than fairy-tale figures.

Mikhail Baryshnikov is a Russian-American ballet dancer who choreographed several iconic pieces which have made him one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century.

In December 2000, Baryshnikov was recognized, along with other cultural luminaries, for a lifetime of extraordinary achievement at the Kennedy Center Honor Awards.

The Athens Concert Hall is screening a performance live from Moscow of the Bolshoi Ballet in "Romeo and Juliet," directed by Alexei Ratmansky. The screening starts at 6 p.m. and admission costs 15 euros.

Athens Concert Hall, 1 Kokkali & Vassilissis Sofias, tel 210.728.2333, www.megaron.gr

The Bejart Ballet Lausanne celebrates its founder, Maurice Bejart (1927-2007), with a show created by artistic director Gil Roman that blends some of his most celebrated choreographies with music ranging from Beethoven to Nick Cave. "Bejart fete Maurice" will be presented at the Herod Atticus Theater on Sunday and Monday, September 17-18, starting at 9 p.m.

The Athens Concert Hall will be live-streaming the Bolshoi Ballet's new production, "A Contemporary Evening," on Sunday, March 19, starting at 5 p.m. The show comprises a triptych of works by three masters of modern and contemporary choreography, Jerome Robbins, Harald Lander and Alexei Ratmansky, to music by Igor Stravinsky, Carl Czerny and Leonid Desyatnikov.

"Dancers stare at themselves in the mirror almost all of the time," celebrated Ukrainian dancer Sergei Polunin said at one point during the interview. "It helps us to improve," he added.

Leading Russian classical ballet dancers Natalia Osipova and Sergei Polunin perform contemporary dance works by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Russell Maliphant and Arthur Pita at the Pallas Theater in Athens on December 1, 2 and 3. Performances start at 8.30 p.m. Admission ranges from 40 to 95 euros (special rates for children and students).