Where do these variations come from?

[Solor]

--In Vol. 2 of the DVD of "Nina Ananiashvili & Internat'l Stars", there is a performance of the Pas from "Don Quixote". Ananiashvili and Fadeyechev dance the Adagio and everyone else dances solos from either "Don Quixote" or the "Paquita" Grand Pas Classique.........

Yuri Possokhov dances a variation I have never heard and/or seen before.......it is the typical 19th century 3/4 male variation (2 or 4 bars to start, 16 bars of the main melody, 16 bars of a central melody, and then back to the main melody for 16 bars to the finish). Where does this variation come from?

--What of Solor's Grand Pas Classique variation.....where does this variation come from?

--In the Bolshoi's film of "La Bayadere", Alexander Vetrov (who performs Solor) dances a variation in the Act II Grand Pas Classique in place of the traditional variation for Solor. Again, this variation has the typical 19th century male variation formula (in 3/4 for about 48 bars). I have never heard/seen this variation anywhere else either (Vetrov dances the traditional solo for Solor in the Shades scene, thus warranting the substitution). Where does this variation come from?

[Solor]

anybody? anybody?

[Solor]

anybody? anybody?

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