Don Quixote: A Ballet in Three Acts - Mikhail Baryshnikov (performer) (excerpt) (1984)
Title
Don Quixote: A Ballet in Three Acts - Mikhail Baryshnikov (performer) (excerpt) (1984)
Subject
Ballet dancing
Drama
URL
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Description
Content Description from WorldCat.org (https://www.worldcat.org/title/don-quixote-kitris-wedding-a-ballet-in-three-acts/oclc/52209165) :
Set in sunny Spain, Don Quixote has always been popular in icy Russia. Choreographed by Mikhail Baryshnikov after Petipa and Gorsky for American Ballet Theatre, it is again a pretext for marvelous dancing. The plot is simple: in Barcelona, young Kitri and her lover Basilio must outwit her father, who wants her to marry the rich Gamache. Kitri's incidental protector is Don Quixote, who sees the feminine ideal in all the women he meets. The path of the plotting lovers travels through a tavern, a gypsy camp, a windmill attack, a fake suicide, and finally a festive wedding. Baryshnikov both pays homage to and revitalizes one of the most popular and joyful ballets in the surviving Russian imperial ballet's repertory.
Ephemera: available through the CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. Three pages from Under Cover magazine containing program information.
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Set in sunny Spain, Don Quixote has always been popular in icy Russia. Choreographed by Mikhail Baryshnikov after Petipa and Gorsky for American Ballet Theatre, it is again a pretext for marvelous dancing. The plot is simple: in Barcelona, young Kitri and her lover Basilio must outwit her father, who wants her to marry the rich Gamache. Kitri's incidental protector is Don Quixote, who sees the feminine ideal in all the women he meets. The path of the plotting lovers travels through a tavern, a gypsy camp, a windmill attack, a fake suicide, and finally a festive wedding. Baryshnikov both pays homage to and revitalizes one of the most popular and joyful ballets in the surviving Russian imperial ballet's repertory.
Ephemera: available through the CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. Three pages from Under Cover magazine containing program information.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Mikhail Baryshnikov (performer and choreography)
Ludwig Minkus (music)
Brian Large (director)
Robin Scott (producer)
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Services (PBS)
NVC Arts
Date
1984 March 5
Citation
“Don Quixote: A Ballet in Three Acts - Mikhail Baryshnikov (performer) (excerpt) (1984),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/141.