
3/6 of Yuri Burlaka's staging of the Mazurka des enfants, Grand Pas classique & Pas de trois from "Paquita" for the Bolshoi Ballet. November 17, 2008. Moscow, Russia. Set design by Alyona Pikalova, costumes by Yelena Zaitseva. Performed by Yelena Andrienko, Anastasia Goryacheva & Denis Medvedev. Here, the famous pas de trois has been restored musically to its original form, & although the Bolshoi utilized the choreographic notation of the Sergeyev Collection for this revival I'm not sure how much they followed it for the staging of the pas de trois, though it seems that it is very much authentic. For almost a century, this pas de trois has been known in the west as the "Minkus pas de trois". Thanks to my piano reduction of the complete "Paquita" Grand pas classique, I've learned that the majority of this music is not by Minkus at all, but by Eduard Deldevez, the composer of the score for the original full-length "Paquita" of 1846, with a male variation by Adolphe Adam. Perhaps a more appropriate title is the "Deldevez-Minkus-Adam Pas de trois"! "Paquita" pas de trois - --Entrée, pt. 1 (Deldevez) --Entrée, pt. 2 (Minkus) --Variation I (Deldevez) --Intermède (Minkus) --Variation II (Deldevez) --Variation III (Adolphe Adam, from his score for Joseph Mazilier's 1845 ballet "Le Diable à quatre") --Coda (MInkus) --Enjoy!!
Bolshoi
Ballet
Paquita
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Pas
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Svetlana
Zakharova
Andrei
Uvarov
Petipa
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