The Mariinsky Theatre’s tour to New York continues. American critics have given their reviews of the first ballets performed by the St Petersburg dancers.
The ballet part of the tour opened with a series of performances of Swan Lake. “The unparalleled precision of the Mariinsky Ballet’s corps in Swan Lake was rightfully rewarded with the evening’s most thunderous applause. Every tilt of the head, every flick of the wrist, every pose, every hop in arabesque was performed in unison and with perfect musicality,” commented the internet portal broadwayworld.com.
The newspaper The New York Times praised “the exquisitely medieval look of this staging.” “The harmonious colors and vivid period detail of the costumes and sets are lessons from which every other Swan Lake in the world today should learn,” wrote the columnist who went on to say that “Many beauties were evident throughout.” The columnist also noted that “The panache of the ballroom scene’s national dances has real charm”, “The distinction of Mariinsky upper-body carriage and épaulement (...) is delectable” and that “the elegance of legs and feet” and “The sheer drill of the large ensembles is superlative.”
At the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Swan Lake was succeeded by Cinderella. One American critic, familiar with several productions by Alexei Ratmansky, commented that “The whole production shows us that he appreciates how Prokofiev’s ballet is poised between touching romance and biting sarcasm” (The New York Times). Of the performers, the reviewer for Dance Magazine was enchanted by Diana Vishneva in the role of Cinderella: “This ballerina can fill up the stage with a single gesture... Her special quality of tenderness, seen in the tilt of the head or a rolling of the hands, lasts the whole ballet... The illusion was that she was dancing steps she had made up herself. Vishneva fully realized Ratmansky’s vision of a gentle, neglected girl who finds herself through meeting her life partner.”
The writer for the portal broadwayworld.com noted “the delicate sensuality” of the duet of Anastasia Matvienko and Alexander Sergeyev who appeared in the lead roles in the second performance of Cinderella.
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