What an extraordinary dancer Tamara Rojo is. Here she was, fabulous at forty, able to toss off the fiendishly difficult - and long - role of Kitri in Rudolf Nureyev's Don Quixote.
No balance is missed, and some are held for an improbable length of time, usually interrupted only by the demands of the music, and her legendary fouettés are as secure as ever with interspersed quadruple turns during the first sixteen. But she is no performing seal and every aspect of the character is right under her skin: the playfulness, the determination, the cunning. Her appearance is also spot on with her hair gleaming like a helmet, eyes flashing and a wide smile that effortlessly reaches the back of the theatre.
It is curious how a true star can shine without a follow spot. ...continue reading.
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