Olé!
The Mariinsky company dances
Don Quixote
.
The party is in order, the castanets vibrate, the petticoats fly away, a heart-catcher lines the brides of the young ladies.
The same ballet is performed on the Bastille stage with the Paris Opera troupe for the holidays.
The retransmission of this ballet on France 5 from Saint Petersburg will allow “balletomaniacs” to play the game of comparisons.
To the sound of the orchestra under the direction of Alexei Shupliakov, the Russian version gives lightness and has fun with a wide range of folk dances.
Dreamlike visions and action scenes
Escamillo and his street dancer perform them with arching and slow motion that will be remembered for a long time.
Viktoria Tereshkina is Kitri, a beauty that her father would like to marry Lord Gamache.
However, she loves the Barber, Basilio, played by the star Kissim Kim, a Korean virtuoso dancer, who has been enchanting the banks of the Neva for ten years with his fawn lightness.
Don Quixote steps in, determined
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