Camille

Thanks Alexandra! I'll try to write a longer report about this ballet, as well as about the other ones I've seen recently (POB school performance, Balanchine Jewels, Paquita). I'm also going to see the young dancers program in May, so i'll of course share my comments!

About the unchanged version, I've heard once it's because he wanted it like that: he really wanted to recreate the original Petipa version, which was similar to the Kirov one. It's what he did at POB for other ballets (Sleeping Beauty, Nutcraker, Swan lake....)! And this is one great thing, we can see Russian soloist with POB when La Bayadère is performed in France, because the variations are quite the same (for season 2001-2002, Nicolas Tsiskaridze, as well as Svetlana Zakharova) About the Makharova production, Nureev was considering it as a betrayal to the Kirov version because she changed lots of parts (golden idol variation was replaced by another one, she used some music arrangements, no fast part in the snake variation....)

Hi, I'm a new french member here! I live in Paris, and already know some of you from other ballet boards! I went to see the new produciton of POB last sunday: la petite danseuse de Degas. I liked the ballet, except that it's somtimes quite a mess: dancers everywhere, and it's difficult to see everything. The costumes are wonderful, the dancers very good (as most of times at POB). BUT, the music was terrible: I talked to some dancers after the performance and they told me it's difficult to dance with such a music, they have to find their inner rythm! A non-dancing etoile even told me that I should come with my own music, for example Tchaikovski, and hear it during the performance I even wouldn't notice it's not adapted to the choreography!! I'm usually very please with POB performances but was a little disappointed by this one!