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With a yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum, the Boston Ballet is currently performing the American premiere of the Russian classic, "The Pirate" (Le Corsaire). This brilliant and colorful production was aided by a $100,000 grant from The Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, which is dedicated to maintaining public awareness of Nureyev's artistic legacy. The tale of Le Corsaire is based on an 1814 Byron poem and was revived in 1868 by the great ballet choreographer and master Marius Petipa. The current Boston Ballet production is based on choreography by Konstantin Sergeyev and was staged by Anna-Marie...
...Corsaire is a fun, comic, swashbuckling tale, a ballet version of an old Errol Flynn movie with plenty of swordfights, abductions, and veiled, scantily clad women. Set on the coast of the Ionian Sea, while Greece was under Turkish occupation, it is the story of a young pirate, Conrad (Robert Wallace), who falls in love with a Greek slave, Medora (Natasha Akhmarova), in a Turkish bazaar. When a pasha arrives looking for women to add to his harem, Medora is stolen away from him by Conrad and his band...
...acting side, Seyd, the pasha, was played by Boston Ballet resident choreographer, Daniel Pelzig. In the past two seasons he has created several new ballets for the company, and his ability to please the audience now includes this performance in which he himself is actually onstage. As the round, jovial, bouncy pasha, Pelzig's thrilled expression upon seeing the beautiful slave girls and his silly hopping about with a staff caused more than a few giggles in the audience...
While this is a ballet that caters more to male roles then female roles, there were several exceptions. The role of Medora was danced by the beautiful Natasha Akhmarova who unfortunately will be retiring from the company at the end of the season. Her performance as Medora was by turns sweetly tender and cockily cute, and her fluidity and lithe jumps were flawless throughout the evening. Pollyanna Ribero, as Medora's friend Culnare, displayed her usual solid strength. In the pas d'Esclave (slave dance), the female role was performed by Jennifer Gelfand. The highlight of her variation...
...Dublin TV producer Moya Doherty, who decided to build a show, Riverdance, grounded in the unconventional style of Flatley and another dancer, Jean Butler. Their modern take on an old genre has earned the respect of classical dancers. Says Septime Webre, artistic director of the American Repertory Ballet Company: "The precision and uniformity with which these dancers execute their steps is on par with the great ballet companies of the world...