Don Quixote ballet by Minkus gives a dancer an opportunity to demonstrate a full range of abilities and different sides of talent. Honoured artist of Russia Anna Odintsova approached the part of Kitri step by step, she ventured into parts of the Queen of Dryads and the Street Dancer. Her “double debut” that took place in the beginning of October, became an important creative achievement: the ballerina showed that her “dancing voice” sounds in all “registers”, whether it is pure classics or a role rich in dramatic essence and close to stylistics of Spanish folk dances.
On December 2 Anna Odintsova will dance the part of Kitri – the main role in Don Quixote ballet and one of the most complicated parts of the world ballet repertoire. Denis Matvienko will be a partner of the ballerina. This debut is especially important as the performance will be broadcasted on TV.
– Don Quixote is an actable ballet, - the ballerina tells. – The part of Kitri is extremely difficult, both technically and physically, and demands a long preparation. I’ll try to use all my experience and mastership. Though my heroine and myself are so different, I hope that I’ll be able to feel free and not constricted by tough frames of classical ballet canon.
The last year became very fruitful for the ballerina: it started with a debut in the role of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake that was followed by the main part in Giselle and a variety of roles in other premieres of NOVAT. “Free, charismatic, majestic”, – those were the epithets of critics applied to the ballerina. The Lilac Fairy performed by her in The Sleeping Beauty choreographed by Nacho Duato was considered “flawless” by "Izvestiya".