The Bolshoi Ballet Cinema Series continues, live, at the Rialto Theatre this Sunday at 10 a.m.
Another of the great ballets of the Russian tradition, La Bayadere ( the Temple Dancer) is an exotic story of love and intrigue in India.
Nikiya, a young temple dancer, swears her love to a young warrior. The High Brahmin wants Nikiya for himself and tells the all-powerful Rajah about the affair.
The Rajah had decided that the warrior would marry his own daughter, so he makes a deadly intervention.
Tickets are on sale now. For more information, call the Rialto Theatre at 250-338-5502.
— Rialto Theatre