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Tereshkina and Kim add fire to the Mariinsky Ballet’s dusty Don Quixote

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“Kimin Kim won the audience over from his first disarming smile, while his athleticism dazzled”
Reviewed at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 24 July 2017
Don Quixote (Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky)
Mariinsky Ballet
Boris Gruzin, Conductor
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Viktoria Tereshkina, Dancer
Kimin Kim, Dancer
Soslan Kulaev, Dancer
Alexander Fyodorov, Dancer
Konstantin Zverev, Dancer
Olga Belik, Dancer
Ekaterina Chebykina, Dancer
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