Royal Opera House,London
Strutting matadors, fiery señoritas and outstanding soloists show the scandal-hit company at its virtuoso bestWhen I was first learning about ballet as a child I read a lot of books that summed up the plots of notorious old classics with phrases like: “There is a lot of pretty dancing to celebrate the marriage of x and y. They live fortunately ever after.”Those sentences sprang irresistibly to mind watching Don Quixote, and a soufflé of a confection that has only the most fragile flavour of Cervantes. What it offers though is sensational dancing – virtuosic,beautiful and open-hearted – created by Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky to show off ballet as the most refined and communicative of the arts.
Denis Rodkin is sensational, flinging tall jumps into the air as whether carving them with a knifeContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com