Dancers Descend on Orange County

The cast of the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, Russia and the international stars for Tour de Force: A Gala Dance Spectacular are in Orange County and attended a welcome dinner at the Wyndham Hotel on Tuesday evening. Guests lapped up the signature Orange County weather and the dancers mixed, mingled and relaxed before their Center performances which start today (Wednesday) in Segerstrom Hall. Photos of the dancers, Center staff and donors are below with ids.

1) Bolshoi Ballet’s Nikolay Tsiskaridze with Sharon and Bruno Lebon 2) Guillaume Côté from The National Ballet of Canada and Desmond Richardson of Complexions Dance Company 3) Christina and Mary Harward with the Kirov Ballet’s Diana Vishneva, center 4) Sergei Volobuev and Maria Abashova from the Eifman Ballet 5) Eifman Ballet’s Diana Danchenko and Natalia Smirnova 6) Vladimir Malakhov, the Center’s executive vice president Judy Morr, Diana Vishneva and Sergei Danilian of Ardani Artists