“It was great, everybody standing up at the end,” says Carlos Acosta, talking about the recent U.S. premiere of his “Don Quixote” at the Kennedy Center. Though Acosta has performed in the States a ...
The adage “dying is easy, comedy is hard” must have driven choreographer Carlos Acosta when he tackled the baggy monster that is Marius Petipa’s “Don Quixote.” Every directorial decision, from the set ...
Britain’s Royal Ballet, founded in 1931 by the Irish-born dancer Dame Ninette de Valois, is the youngest of all the great European ballet companies. But it possesses a fabled history – one that more ...
Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Marius Petipa first staged Don ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Royal Ballet opens the 2023/24 Season with a revival of Carlos Acosta’s ...
Acosta (pictured below by Johan Persson) has previously mounted shows of his own – Tocororo, A Cuban Tale was the most prominent – but Don Q is his first outing in the classical repertoire, and for ...
Windmills of your mind: Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov in Carlos Acosta's production of Don Quixotephoto: Andrej Uspenski The glaring anomaly is that the ballet as Marius Petipa wrote it in 1869 ...
Carlos Acosta's first venture directing one of ballet's 19th century classics was eagerly anticipated, as was his own starring role in the production (as Basilio), opposite the Argentinian Royal ...
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