Until 2nd November.
Ballet classic Don Quixote, one of the biggest audience favourites, demands enormous technical virtuosity of its dancers. This season, a new generation of Dutch National Ballet principals will get the opportunity to prove themselves in the multitude of dazzling leaps, dizzying pirouettes and snappy pointework variations. At the same time, the ballet, which is based on a passage from Miguel de Cervantes’ epic novel of the same name (1605 – 1615), makes strong demands on the dancers’ acting talent and sense of timing and delivery. This is particularly so in Ratmansky’s version, where the comic story about the love between Kitri and Basilio – fuelled by Don Quixote – gets a touch of absolute style and chicness, despite all the spectacle and humour. As the ‘icing on the cake’, there are elegant, colourful sets and costumes by the Frenchman Jérôme Kaplan.
Photo by Hugo Thomassen
