Word: basilios
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discovers his fictitious Lady Dulcinea in the personage of the lovely peasant girl Kitri and vows to rescue her from peril. Kitri is indeed in trouble, for her father Lorenzo has tried to force her to marry the rich aristocratic fop Gamache over her sweet-heart, the young barber Basilio. Pursued by Lorenzo, Gamache and everyone else in the massive cast, Kitri and Basilio flee on a romantic adventure that takes them to a gypsy camp and then to a tavern and even transforms them momentarily into spirits in a dream. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza follow, determined to save...
...title of the ballet may be "Don Quixote," but most of the action and dancing centers around the young lovers Kitri (Trinidad Sevillano) and Basilio (Patrick Armand). Sevillano dances the flirty Kitri with technical brilliance and girlish charm. What Sevillano lacks in sauciness, Armand more than compensates for with his sexy, Don Juan appeal and spicy leaps and turns...