From Act One "Gavotte". Recorded at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1989. Aleksei Fadeyechev as Paris. Tatyana Bessmertnova, Yulia Levina, Inna Petrova, Nina Speranskaya, Olga Suvorova, Vladimir Karakulev, Andrei Korolkov, Vladimir Lyakin, Leonid Nikonov and Igor Zakharin as Juliet' s Friends. The Members of Ballet and Orchestra of Bolshoi Theatre. Algis Zhuraitis, Conductor
Fadeyechev was a great Russian dancer in his day, albeit eclipsed by Baryshnikov, who had defected to the west the previous decade. I like the choreography for this gavotte, with the women en pointe (as opposed to character shoes, if memory serves, in the MacMillan version, which is otherwise the gold standard in my opinion).
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