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Giannandrea Poesio

Wednesday, 27th February 2008

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London Coliseum

The Royal Ballet presence was certainly significant throughout the evening: Tamara Rojo and Federico Bonelli opened with a catchy, though oddly adapted, pas de deux from Esmeralda, while Sarah Lamb and David Makhateli, from the same company, launched themselves in a rendition of Mikhail Lavrovsky’s ‘Balcony’ pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet. They were joined by Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg in the act one duet from Onegin and by Sergei Polunin in the ‘Bronze Idol’ solo from La Bayadère. More extracts from 20th-century ballets completed the rich programme. Ilze Liepa and Dmitry Gudanov performed a duet from Roland Petit’s Pique Dame and she also appeared with Mark Peretokin in a duet from the little-known Madame Bovary by Michael Shannon, while Vladimir Derevianko appeared in his signature solo The Firebird, choreographed by Uwe Scholz. Not all of them were choreographically stunning or exciting, but they certainly managed to create a lively game of shadings and contributed, together with a number of small accidents, to the general thrill of a nicely memorable evening.

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