TO A FEAST AS TO A FEAST!
A fairy-tale spectacle created the artists from the ballet at the occasion of their day – 29 April
Without a breath left the artists, as well as the audience at Sofia Opera and Ballet at the end of the holiday Gala evening at the occasion of the International Dance Day – 29 April. The first ones – because they shared to the full and without a rest their enormous talent on the stage. The spectators – because of the incredible mix of emotions, which the ballet offered to them.
It turned out to be a spectacle, in which all participants were equally significant – starting with most little – the students from the National School of Dance Art with pedagogue Fani Cherneva, who first filled with beauty the stage, which was arranged with style and purity. On the background of what we have seen, we could only sorry that from the classical title “Paquita” to us has reached only this amazing piece of choreography by the eminent Marius Petipa! Ludwig Minkus’ music brought to explosion of dance perfection, in which together with the premier-soloists Marta Petkova, Emil Yordanov, Boryana Petrova, Nikola Hadzhitanev and Pamela Pandova, we saw in a new light Sofia Tsutsakova, Vyara Ivancheva, Venera Hristova, Aleksandra Drangazhova, Elena Petrova and Nataly Bratanova. One after another, they arranged fairy-tale variations and pas de trois, dressed in the made by Hristiana Mihaleva-Zorbalieva with incredible exquisiteness and taste costumes.
In order this evening to turn into an unforgettable feast of ballet, in not smaller degree contributed the second part of the programme, which, seen from everywhere, was a creative challenge. Compliments for the courage of the Artistic Director Sara-Nora Krysteva to offer to the audience two ballet miniatures, in which the serious and the comical are interweaved beyond recognition. The producer of “A Story of a Love” and choreographer of “A Stubborn Dance” Yordan Krastev has boldly thrown the gauntlet to the ballet ensemble and to the soloists Darina Bedeva and Radul Roglev. They also gave the best of themselves artistically, as well as as performers, in order to provoke spontaneous laughter, as well as reflection on the background of the introducing performance of Cesaria Evora and on the music by Ludwig Minkus. Entirely modern as stylistic, costumes and performance, the second miniature revealed unexpected qualities in each one of the performers, the wonderful Katerina Petrova, Tsetso Ivanov, Pamela Pandova, Sofia Tsutsakova, Aleksandar Aleksandrov, Nikola Hadzhitanev. The explosion of applauses and approving cries after the end of the Gala evening confirmed that it was worthy namely for its feast the ballet of the Sofia Opera to address a similar challenge. Special compliments to the répétiteurs of this magical evening: Sara-Nora Krysteva, Maria Ilieva, Yasen Valchanov, Riolina Topalova (assistant and stage director), Ivanka Kasabova.
With the presented triptych, all the participants won recognition for their class of a leading ballet company. Only the really great ones in this exceptional art manage to make this in the most difficult, but also most moving way. Congratulations, colleagues!
