Artiste: Alexander Fadeyechev

Week two of the Bolshoi Ballet's New York engagement featured the effervescent Maria Alexandrova as Kitri in a mostly successful Don Quixote. Alexandrova and Lantratov (as Basilio) lit up the stage of the Koch Theater (Lincoln Centre Festival, New York)  

There can be no lovelier and mystical moment in classical ballet than the sight of 32 ethereal ‘Shades’ in a ribbon of white, slowly descending from a darkened mountain range, down a zigzag ramp to the stage.