Divine Dancers - Live From Prague

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• Ballet Gala programme from Prague

   

  By a customer , 13 Jul 2011

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  This 2006 Gala from Prague Opera House features mainly a series of pas de deux as one would expect. So it opens with one from 'Manon' with Polina Semyonova and Igor Zelensky. Other couples include Natalia Hoffmann and Altin Kaftira who dance to a Kurt Weill song 'Wie lange noch' and do 'The Man I Love' from Balanchine's Gershwin cycle 'Who Cares?'; Oksana Kutcheruk and Roman Mikhalev appear in a pas de deux from 'The Sleeping Beauty'; and Maria Alexandrova and Sergei Filine appear to good effect in excerpts from 'The Pharoah's Daughter' and 'Raymonda'. So far so standard. Delphine Baey from Marseilles does a graceful solo 'Memoire' to Rachmaninov.Dmitri Simkin dances with Marek Tuma to a Jacques Brel song 'Amsterdam' and with his young son Daniil Simkin (a genuine star in the making) to Sinatra's version of 'My Way'. Daniil on his own is brilliant in another Brel song 'Les Bourgeois'.
  
  The most impressive piece however is a pas de quatre 'The Moor's Pavane' a sort of potted 'Othello' choreographed by Jose Limon to music by Purcell. This features Charles Jude, who appears to be the presiding figure of the Prague Ballet, with Jean Jacques Herment, Stephanie Poublot and Viviana Franciosi.
  
  The dancing is well presented and clearly photographed.

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