Word: sevillano
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...powerfully ends with the new Snow scene after the nutcracker has turned into a prince and taken Clara to an enchanted forest. Trinidad Sevillano and Patrick Armand, as the Snow Queen and King, dance the newly choreographed movements with awe-inspiring strength and grace--not an easy task with snow falling throughout the scene, creating a slippery floor. The sweeping arm gestures with delicate bourre leg movement perfectly echo the motion of falling snow while the intertwining dancers surrounding the queen and king create spacial patterns on stage that mimic the delicate shape of a snowflake. Act I closes...
...unnecessary bowing, act one offers us the pleasures of the compellingly evil fairy Carabosse (Devon Carney), and the famed Rose Adagio. One of the most devilishly difficult moments for a ballerina due to its extended balances on point and sweeping plie arabesques, it is masterfully danced by Trinidad Sevillano, as the adolescent Princess Aurora. David Walker's superb costume and set design also majestically frame this scene. Unfortunately, this act also includes Carla Stalling's failure as the Queen to both act and dance, and the repetition of odd, graceless flittery arm choreography by the court fairies...
...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...
Holmes' version does regain its gusto by the final scene, when Kitri and Basilio marry after successfully foiling Gamache and Lorenzo. The townspeople join in the extravagant celebration with waving fans and clattering castanets, but the highlight of the finale is the grande pas de deux. Sevillano enchants Armand with her coquetishness and bedazzles the audience with her technical skill. She skips delicately across the stage en pointe, slices through the air with split-second leaps and performs multiple pirouettes and fouette turns with luscious ease. Armand tosses his head more sexily than ever while leaping in furious circles about...
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