On the evening of August 8th, the Ballet Company of Teatro alla Scala made its NCPA debut and performed the ballet Le Corsaire, kicking off the NCPA Dance Festival 2019.
Le Corsaire, a representative romantic ballet, had its premiere over one hundred years ago, and now it has been reinterpreted by the Ballet Company of Teatro alla Scala.
In master Anna-Marie Holmes' version, lengthy pantomime in the original is shortened to highlight the personality characteristics of different characters.
The massive hand-painted scenery, inspired by costume and set designer Luisa Spinatelli, gave the stage exquisite and retro looks, and every frame picture seemed as if it were an oil painting telling the audience a story about a hero saving a beauty by the Aegean Sea.
As the curtain was raised, characters of different identities, such as peddlers, buyers, female slaves, the market owner and pirates, came together and danced merrily in the hand-drawn stage scenery, looking as if there were a bazaar of the last century on the stage.
The Principal dancers Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko played Medora and Conrad respectively. They danced in perfect unison and their exquisite performance won them bursts of applause.
In the Teatro alla Scala's Le Corsaire, primitive simplicity is hidden in all the magnificent scenes, such as the “cave dance”, which implies a sudden change in the plot, and the “garden dance”, the most classic dance in the ballet.
On the evening of August 8th, the Ballet Company of Teatro alla Scala made its NCPA debut and performed the ballet Le Corsaire, kicking off the NCPA Dance Festival 2019.
Le Corsaire, a representative romantic ballet, had its premiere over one hundred years ago, and now it has been reinterpreted by the Ballet Company of Teatro alla Scala.
In master Anna-Marie Holmes' version, lengthy pantomime in the original is shortened to highlight the personality characteristics of different characters.
The massive hand-painted scenery, inspired by costume and set designer Luisa Spinatelli, gave the stage exquisite and retro looks, and every frame picture seemed as if it were an oil painting telling the audience a story about a hero saving a beauty by the Aegean Sea.
As the curtain was raised, characters of different identities, such as peddlers, buyers, female slaves, the market owner and pirates, came together and danced merrily in the hand-drawn stage scenery, looking as if there were a bazaar of the last century on the stage.
The Principal dancers Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko played Medora and Conrad respectively. They danced in perfect unison and their exquisite performance won them bursts of applause.
In the Teatro alla Scala's Le Corsaire, primitive simplicity is hidden in all the magnificent scenes, such as the “cave dance”, which implies a sudden change in the plot, and the “garden dance”, the most classic dance in the ballet.
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