“‘Don Quixote’ is stylistically one of the richest classical ballets,” says Atlanta Ballet’s Artistic Director Gennadi Nedvigin. “Through the characters, it weaves together so many different ...
With its Don Quixote, the Carolina Ballet premiered another ambitious work in Raleigh Memorial Auditorium on Oct. 9. Company artistic director Robert Weiss has choreographed his own version of one of ...
Ranked among ballet’s most complex choreography, Don Quixote weaves a rich tapestry of love, illusion and adventure based on Cervante’s classic Spanish novel. Packed with balletic bravado, intricate ...
Like Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, whose visions (or delusions) spur him toward knightly quests, Sergio Masero-Olarte has pursued a dream to become a world-class dancer. It sent him on a ...
The old theatrical saw of “Dying is easy, comedy is hard” holds true with the classical ballet “Don Quixote.” This adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’ picaresque novel is one of the rare full-length ...
"Don Quixote" is one of the oddities of the established ballet repertory. For one thing, it’s very old. It premiered in 1869, well before standards like “Swan Lake” (1877), “The Sleeping Beauty” (1890 ...
The Boston Ballet’s showing of the iconic ballet “Don Quixote” fully lived up to its grand reputation with a cast that utterly dazzled, radiating pure technical precision and fierce energy. The show ...
The ballet called “Don Quixote,” which the San Francisco Ballet opened in revival Friday evening at the War Memorial Opera House, is the ballet that best distinguishes a classic from a relic. Granted ...
Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Don Quixote was revived and revised in Russia ...
The adage “dying is easy, comedy is hard” must have driven choreographer Carlos Acosta when he tackled the baggy monster that is Marius Petipa’s “Don Quixote.” Every directorial decision, from the set ...
Typically, Russian productions are happy to overlook this narrative snag to focus all on the choreographic fireworks; others tie themselves in knots trying to fashion some semblance of a dramatic arc.