CKV Don Quichot

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Don QuichotBASIC INFORMATION

- Music by: Ludwig Minkus (1826-1917)- Choreography: Marius Petipa (1818-1910) and Alexander Gorsky (1871- 1924)- Production and Addition Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky- Décor and Costume Design: Jérôme Kaplan.- Lighting Design: James F. Ingalls.

Peformed by the Dutch National Ballet(Het Nationale Ballet)

Orchestra Holland SymfoniaConductor Kevin Rhodes

LEADING PARTS

KitriBasilioDon QuichotSancho PanzaGamacheLorenzoMercedesEspadaPiccilia

JuanitaCupidQueen of the Dryads

Anna TsygankovaMatthew GoldingPeter de Jong (actor)Karel de Rooij (actor)Dario MealliAltin KaftiraNatalia HoffmanMoises Martin CintasMaiko Tsutsumi

Nadia YanowskyMaia MakhateliSasha Mukhamedov

DVD produced and directed by Adrienne Liron & Jeff Tudor A Dutch National Ballet and 3 Minutes West co-production

Live recording from the AMSTERDAM Music Theatre



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ACTS

1. Overture

PROLOGUE’ In Don Quichot’s library

2. Don Quichot’s Servants hide his books 3. Entrance of Don Quichot. He has visions4. Entrance of Sancho Panza

ACT 1 A plaza in Barcelona

5. A square in Barcelona

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Kitri’s entrance 7. Basilio’s entrance 8. Kitri and Basilio, love scene9. Lorenzo(her father), Kitri and Basilio.

Lorenzo forbids Basilio to go with hisdaughter

10. Entrance of Gamache, another man in lovewith Kitri, but richer.

11. Seguidilla12. Pas de caractère: Mercedes and Toreadors.

( a dance that is not connected with thepart)

13. Dance of Espada14. Quadrille of Toreadors15. Dance of Mercedes with the knives16. Coda: Espada, Mercedes and Toreadors17. The fight and the entrance of Don Quichot

and Sancho Panza18. Sancho Panza’s polka 19. Dance of Juanita and Piccilia20. Don Quichot thinks Kitri is Dulcinea21. Basilio’s variation with Juanita and

Piccilia

22. Kitri’s variation with castanets 23. Coda. Finale Act

ACT 2The camp of the actors

24. The comedians25. Kitri & Basilio enter, chased by Gamache

& Lorenzo26. Kitri & Basilio; gypsy pas de deux27. Puppet theatre and windmills28. The nightmare of Don Quichot

Don Quichot’s dream 29. Don Quichot’s dream 30. Dance of the Dryades

31. Queen of the Dryades variation32. Cupid’s variation

33. Kitri’s variation, Don Quichot thinks she isDulcinea

34. Coda. The end of the dream

ACT 3Tavern

35. Tavern36. Entrance of Kitri & Basilio37. Scene. Lorenzo and Gamache discover the

hidden KitriThe plaza in Barcelona

38. Wedding March39. Basilio fakes himself committing suicide40. Coda41. The comedians return42. Bolero, by Mercedes and Espada43. Fadango44. Grand pas: entrée45. Adagio: Pas de deux, Kitri & Basilio46. Variation 1- Juanita47. Variation 2- Basilio

48. Variation 3- Kitri49. Variation 4- Piccilia50. Coda51. Finale

52. End Credits



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STORY LINE

First Act Don Quichot in his library, he discovers his books have suddenly disappeared.In his imagination he is having a battle as “knight” and rescues his beautiful

love, Dulcinea. A thief, Sancho Panza runs in, pursued by housemaids. Don Q.sees the shield-bearer he needs. Meanwhile Kitri, the daughter of innkeeper Lorenzo, flirts with the young barberBasilio. Her father declines Basilio, he wants Kitri to marry the rich but snootyGamache.The young lovers escape, immediately haunted by Lorenzo and Gamache.

Second Act Kitri and Basilio run into a theatre group and ask for help. The troupe is tellingthe pursuers that the two have already left. When Don Quichot joins, he sees the

actor who’s playing the princess for a she-devil. Chaos breaks out and Don is leftbehind. He bungles the windmills for monsters and the moon for his belovedDulcinea.The nightmare turns into a bright vision, with Dulcinea (played by Kitri) ascenter figure. Sancho Panza revives Don with wine.

Third Act The plaza in Barcelona is full of gypsies and toreadors. Kitri and Basilio arriveand think they have escaped the forced marriage. But sadly her father and histeam find Kitri this time.

Preparations for the wedding of Kitri and Gamache are made. Basilio comes onstage and pretend to commit suicide because of his broken heart. Kitri cries, butsuddenly realizes he is faking it. Playing along with Basilio, Kitri begs her fatherfor nuptial blessing, and her father gives it. Then Basilio jumps up again, he hasfooled everyone. Lorenzo and Gamache are shocked, but Lorenzo realizes thatonly Basilio is able to make his daughter happy. He hugs them both incompliance. While the wedding between Kitri and Basilio is celebrated, DonQuichot and Sancho Panza go off in search of new adventures.

Don Quichot and Sancho Panza



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CHARACTERS AND DANCERS

Kitri: The innkeepers daughter. She is in love with Basilio, but her father wants her tomarry the affected Gamache.

Basilio: A young, poor barber. He wants to marry Kitri but her father forbids him.

Don Quichot: He dreams of becoming a brave knight. Together with Sancho Panza hetries to fight the evil, and helps Kitri and Basilio with their forbidden love issue.

Sancho Panza: Don Quichot’s help. He is very clumsy.

Gamache: A very rich but narcissistic and snooty man from the nobility.

Lorenzo: He wants the best for his daughter, and thinks the best means the richest.He doesn’t want her to marry the poor Basilio.

Mercedes: A street dancer, and also a friend of Kitri and Basilio.

Espada: Mercedes partner.

Piccilia: Best friend of Kitri. She has a relatively big dance part together with Juanita.Piccilia has a solo.Juanita: Best friend of Kitri. She dances the same parts as Piccilia. She also has asolo.

Cupid: Character in Don Quichot’s dream.

Queen of the Dryads: Character in Don Quichot’s dream.

Queen of the Dryads



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OPINION AND EXTRA INFORMATION

What is happening:Performance This ballet is performed in a quick way. The theme is generally light. If it would

be compared with, for instance, Swan Lake or Giselle, it could be called happy.No one dies, the music is cheerful. There are much allegro’s. Because of the oftenretuning humor the dramatically forbidden love is lightened up and at the endeverybody leaves the theater full with joy.

The stage image The atmosphere that is created is very warm Spanish. The scenery is mostly setup as a plaza/market, and in a library from where out the plaza can be seen.In the second act the scenery moves to a little colder-looking mountain to atheatre troupe. Don Quichot has his nightmare, and then the vision starts, in

which the décor is fresh and mostly green.The costumes are brightly colored, in red, yellow, orange, brown, blue and pink.Only in the vision all costumes are white.Southern attributes such as castanets, guitars, knifes and fans are used.

The dancing The dancers are never alone on stage. There are a lot of scenes in which thedancers make the same movements at the same time, (unison dancing) or theleading characters do a pas de deux or a solo, while the other dancers are in thebackground, making basic movements such as putting their hands on their waist,cross their legs or “talk” with each other, while watching the dancer. In thisperformance students of the ballet academy are involved, as children, whichmakes the atmosphere more realistic. They come back in the dream as angels.

The music The music leads the performance, though in the background. The music isobviously present, but still the dancers are more outstanding than the music.

The theatre.The orchestra is under the lowest seats and they cannot see the stage.The seats are arranged in a rainbow shape around the stage. There are 1594

seats in the Music Theatre, 11 seats for the disabled and 75 seats for theorchestra.



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HISTORY AND REVIEWS:

The Dutch National Ballet; A small history

The Dutch National ballet came into being in 1961, and has been led by artistic

director Ted Brandsen since 2003. The company has huge internationalorientation, and is with more than 80 dancers the biggest company in theNetherlands. Since 1986 The Dutch National Ballet has been housed in

Amsterdam, in the Amsterdam Music Theatre (Het Muziektheater) , which is oneof the largest theatres in Europe, and also high in the list of the best theatres.The company gives over 70 performances in Amsterdam, and at least 25 in othercities in the Netherlands, but also in foreign countries.

Reviews and comments.

Former artistic director and choreographer of the Bolshoi Ballet, AlexeiRatmansky: “This ballet let dancers show off their best qualities. The first time Ibreathlessly watched the ballet. The ballet has the best popularity in Russia, andmaybe that is because it’s so cold over there. This ballet has so much

temperament and is so “heated” it sparkles of the stage like fire. ”

De Telegraaf: “Everytime again it is a mile-stone if Dutch National Ballet adds aclassical- romantic piece to its repertoire. At the premier the audience howled of enthusiasm. It seems like Amsterdam has another hit performance. Don Quichotis an extremely pleasant show, a show-case of exciting and passionate dance. ”

www.cultuurbewust.nl: “Although Don Quichot with his little bit annoying

performance sometimes distract from the dancing, the clumsy Sancho Panza andthe severe passion between Kitri and Basilio compensate this perfectly.”

Noordhollands Dagblad about Matthew Golding in DQ: “Golding is a phenomenaldancer. The way he accomplishes his turns and jumps are a feast for the eye. Addhis overwhelming charisma and it makes the perfect favorite. ” For his role inDon Quichot Matthew Golding was nominated for The Swan for most impressivedance performance.

VSCD about Anna Tsygankova in DQ: “ According to the judges at the VSCDprize giving the Siberian Tsygankova spreads the Spanish heat and excitementas Kitri in Alexei Ratmansky’s Don Q. She is a ballerina, one who can lead a

performance. Because of her exquisite technique she dances full and free,something that was also seen in George Balanchine’s Serenade.” For her role in Don Quichot Anna Tsygankova was nominated for The Swan formost impressive dance performance

Neither of them won the price, it was given to Jurgita Dronina for her

performance as Aurora in the Sleeping Beauty, which was stunning as well.

http://www.cultuurbewust.nl/

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DANCERS As in all ballets the most credits go to the dancers and actors. Here is a list of thedancers who had the leading roles in Don Quichot.To emphasize the Dutch National Ballet’s international all pictures contain a short

description, name, part, birthplace and country and the occupation they have inside thecompany.

Anna Tsygankova Matthew Golding Peter De Jongh (actor) Karel de Rooij (actor)Kitri Basilio Don Quichot Sancho PanzaNovosibirsk, Russia Regina, Canada Amsterdam, Netherlands Amsterdam, NetherlandsPrincipal Principal None, actor None, actor

Dario Mealli Altin Kaftira Natalia Hoffman Moises Martin CintasGamache Lorenzo Mercedes EspadaMontevarchi, Italy …, A lbania Tsjaikovski, Russia Reus, SpainCoryphéé No longer with HNB (second) Soloist No longer with HNB

Maiko Tsutsumi Nadia Yanowksy Maia Makhateli Sasha MukhamedovPiccilia Juanita Cupid Queen of the DryadsFukuoka, Japan Madrid, Spain Tblisis, Georgia London, EnglandGrand Sujet (second) Soloist Principal Grand Sujet



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END AND VOCABULARY

This was my report about the Dutch National Ballet’s Don Quichot. It counts2110 words and has 10 pages, including the vocabulary and functions list.

VOCABULARY:

Allegro

Coda

Coryphée

Entrance

Fadango

Grand sujet

Pas de deux.

Principal

Seguidilla

Second soloist

Unison

Variation

Quick, alive dancing

Literally “tail”. Mostly the finale of an act when almost all dancers are

on stage.

See “functions”

When a dancers shows up on stagefor the first time in an act.

Ballroom/latin like music. It is alsoseen in Carmen and Esmeralda.

See “functions”

Dance for two, a dance wherein onlytwo people are dancing.

See “functions”

Ballroom/Latin like music. It is alsoseen in Carmen and Esmeralda.

See “functions”

When two or more people make thesame movements at the same time.

A dancesolo.



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FUNCTIONS

In the office you have different positions, from trainees to Administrative Director. Inballet the functions are;

Principal: Always solo, prima ballerina’s and star dancers

(second)Soloist: He/ she has big parts and also solo’s, but is not the leading dancer.Second soloist’s sometimes substitute principal dancers.

Grand Sujet: Dancers that are still part of the corps, but also get bigger (some solo)parts.

Coryphée: “Captain” of the corps the ballet. He/she dances on the front and sometimesdances small solo’s

Corps the ballet: Dancers who always dance with the whole troupe and have the samelevel.

Elève: Basically the same as Aspirant, but with more parts and more dancing in thecorps.

Aspirant: Beginners at ballet gain experience in smaller parts and in the back of thecorps.

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