Paquita: Grand pas de deux - Myriam Ould Braham and Nikolai Tsiskaridze

[MrGUILLERMOPLAZA]

Muy, Muy Bueno,...Bravo!!!!!!!....

[Swan607]

Myriam is really fantastic. she is the perfect Paquita!!! I adore her charming dancing.

[ejc480]

What an excellent performance by Nikolai and Myriam. The corps de ballet is great, too!

[Pearlaceous]

Thank you - that explains it then! Tsiskaridze is so very glamorous! :-)

[Ewaasia]

@Pearlaceous

You're welcome - I forgot to add you can see that version on dvd with Letestu and Martinez;)

[Pearlaceous]

Choreography seems so different from the Mariinsky version - and that view from above really shows just how vast the stage is.

[Ewaasia]

@Pearlaceous

Choreogaphy is by Pierre Lacotte and it was created especially for Paris Opera Ballet - that's why you can see a full-lenght Paquita only on their stage.

[gothicsynthetic]

@Ewaasia Sorry to correct you here, but while Ms. Ould-Braham's tutu is from the Lacotte production of Paquita at the Paris Opera Ballet, this particular performance is of Yuri Burlaka's production for the Bolshoi. Choreographically (though not stylistically) speaking, Lacotte's Grand Pas is much closer to the Mariinsky's, though I believe it includes only the pas de trois and its accompanying variations in the Grand Pas, and not the other variations included in so many other productions.

[sangfroidjen]

Myriam is tiny! I wonder if she's as tiny as Maria Kochetkova?

[21bluethunder]

Beautiful...wish we could see it all.