The Kingdom of Shades scene from the ballet La Bayadère Nikia: Viktoria Tereshkina | Grand pas from the ballet Paquita Soloists: Alina Somova and Danila Korsuntsev |
The somnambular grand pas of the “Shades” is grandiose; here the aesthetic lynchpin is the huge ensemble, the architectonics of the corps de ballet constructions, and a veritable artistic revelation comes in the form of the monumental entrée, the entrance of thirty-two dancers, constructed on the bewitching repetition of one and the same pas.
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The jubilant Paquita is almost chamber-like in terms of its cast: apart from the ballerina and her partner, here there are only fourteen dancers – six soloists and eight coryphées. But they make up all the multifaceted structure of the choreography; the basis here is formed from the variation – not just as the principal component part, but also as a fundamental artistic principal, because all of the dances in the grand pas represent a glittering representation of the themes of the ballerina’s role. Moreover, the ensemble is structured in such a way that the variations of the soloists are easily replaceable: there are more variations here than numbers themselves, and each of the soloists has a free choice. The artistic pathos of Paquita is the glorification of female dance, and the artistic subject is a filigree, jewel-like representation of that and ornamentation in an enchanting variety of colours and pas.
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