Premiere of "Giselle". "Astana Ballet" amazed the public
The ballet, staged by famous French choreographers Coralli and Perrault in 1841, did not leave the stage for 18 years, having sustained a record number of performances for those times - it was shown 152 times, the press service of Astana Ballet reports.
"Astana Ballet" turned to production by Coralli and Perrault, more common in the Western theater. Choreographer Ricardo Amarante introduced his vision of performance, making some adjustments to the musical and choreographic score. "Each young pupil of the ballet school dreams about this performance, great ballerinas of the past and present have reached unprecedented revelations in this performance, every professional troupe wishes to have this performance in its repertoire," "Astana Ballet" noted.
Choreographer’s main task was to make the ballet more effective, clear, releasing it from some archaic pantomime scenes and false numbers, and at the same time to give realism and justification to the actions of characters. He managed to achieve this, especially in the first act, where scenery, light, costumes do not draw a pastoral picture of the Peizan life in the spirit of Watteau, but a realistic painting of "small Dutch".
"Rene Selazar's costumes and decorations create an atmosphere of authenticity and artistic generalization. The fine make-up, exquisite costumes and full virtues of movement of the artists performing the duke's retinue also contribute to this. The second act takes us to the other world, to the world of plotless ballet, but even here the choreographer-director adds a little human passion to the play: the villis are not so dead, they are vicious and thirst for revenge, "the press service of the theater noted. The ballet, which was born in France about three hundred years ago, preserved for descendants and returned to the homeland thanks to Diaghilev's seasons, today opens the Eurasian dance festival. "And this proves once again that the dance lives in everyone's soul, it is inside us, it has no language barriers and boundaries, and therefore it is eternal," the theater emphasized.
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