What an opportunity: two of the best dancers in the world - Natalia Osipova and Leonid Sarafanov - in one of Rudolph Nureyev's most successful choreographic works, and with a company at the top of their game. This was Don Quixote at La Scala, and Italian state television, the RAI, were there to record it.
Television allows you to have the best seat in the house. Better. You can even get up on stage with the dancers and see them sweat up close. You can enjoy the production from the point of view of the choreographer instead of missing half the stage because you're sitting in a box near the proscenium, or watching mainly pvc flooring because you're perched up in the gods. So why, o why, did director Patrizia Carmine choose to show some of the worst possible angles, miss some of the crucial parts of the choreography and change cameras continually as if editing a pop video. ...continue reading.
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