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I think she is very clever,
freedom-loving, confident and cheerful
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the ballet "Paquita" was for me the first big ballet I prepared this season
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At first, I must say I thought it would be difficult for me to deal with it
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from the acting point of view, because my heroine is a gypsy, she is free,
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cheerful, playful and very lively. As soon as I began to get acquainted with the novel itself
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and in general with the choreographic
text of the ballet, I realized that
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I like the character so much - the girl
herself! I like Paquita so much
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in the original - Presiosa,
I like Cervantes' novel "Gypsy",
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I like the choreography - it was such a pleasure for me to work on this role
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choreographer Yuri Smekalov and my coaches
created such an atmosphere of happiness that
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the work was really
nice and I had great fun.
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It was in October, when I danced this role for the first time, but now it's probably
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even more interesting to dive once
more into this role. To search for things
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which Paquita and I have in common,
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what I would like to say to the
audience, maybe to share some story
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Indeed, I consider this ballet to be
one of the best and certainly one of
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my most beloved ones to dance on the stage of the
Mariinsky Theater and its brilliance and joy
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which is trickling out of it, it is very, very
valuable and very appealing to us, the artists,
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and I think the viewers too. It seems to me that
when I first saw the ballet "Paquita" live,
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This was exactly this production
a few years ago, the premiere
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at the Mariinsky Theater. If
I'm not mistaken, it must have been the dress rehearsal
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We were invited to see it as students of Vaganova Ballet Academy.
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and I remember how I was immediately
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struck and got very interested. As far as I know, most parts of Paquita (this
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was a 3-act ballet, didn't survive through the time
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the original version has not been preserved,
only Marius Petipa's
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grandpa from the third act has survived. I think that I
watched a lot of videos on the Internet because
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that this is one of the main
classical ballets and such a milestone in
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the history of ballet and Petipa's choreography
Petipa is certainly very beautiful. When I
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was told that I would perform this
role, I did not believe it at first
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I thought it could not be true,
that it was too much happiness... There're a lot of
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dances, a lot of pantomime, a lot of
acting moments in this role and so much
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interaction with other dancers...
I was just very pleased to dance
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in the moment and it is hard to describe the
feeling when you can act out thу story
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, when you can find yourself in the skin of your character
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and become Paquita for three hours while the performance is going on...
