Don Quixote comes to Sirius

Sirius Federal Territory is hosting the Days of Dance project. People's Artist of Russia Svetlana Zakharova is directing a diverse programme that showcases pieces by the country’s three leading ballet troupes. At the Great Hall of the Science and Art Park, soloists from the Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre have let their skills truly shine on-stage, while Mariinsky played several one-act ballets, and the Leonid Yacobson Company treated the audience to a showing of Don Quixote.

 
In this ballet, the novel’s titular protagonist is happy to step aside, allowing a couple of young lovers, Kitri and Basilio, to bask in the spotlight. The adventures of the rumbustious innkeeper's daughter and her jolly barber beau are certainly exciting to follow, but the production’s main strength comes from the inextricable connection between the plot and the passionate, flowing dance. The masterfully refined choreography acquires a pronounced ‘Spanish accept’ without losing its classical purity. And what better place to appreciate the summer heat of Russian ballet’s Spanish delights than on the Black Sea coast?