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Makar Mikhalkin in Marco Spada.

He reminds me of David Hallberg SO much. He’s definitely quickly becoming one of my favorite young dancers.

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I was quite impressed with Maria Koshkaryova’s debut in MARCO SPADA. I feel like her port de bras is so polished and expressive in this variation. She looked great in all the clips that I saw, and I think this may become one of her signature roles.

The ronde de jambes at the end are a bit muddled, but it’s a devilishly hard variation. Of course, no one quite tops Obratzsova.

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Do you know why the Western companies don't seem to perform Marco Spada? Also to a lesser extent Raymonda and Paquita?

To my knowledge, Marco Spada is licensed exclusively to the Bolshoi, no one else is allowed to perform it, or at least not Lacotte's extremely successful staging.

Raymonda, while it has some beautiful moments, is a slog of a narrative filled with a rather uncompelling love story and rigid characters and requires a big cast. The Wedding scene is a marvel, both in regards to Glazunov's music and the spectacular Pas Hongrois but the ballet can drag on and on while getting there. It's like reading an ancient fairy tale, not the condensed Disney version. However, there have been several attempts to flesh out the story and make it a more compelling watch - most notably English National Ballet's rendition which set the ballet in a more recent historical period.

Paquita has always been a showpiece, and various stagings of the Wedding scene are indeed done in the West by companies and schools. There have been a couple attempts of at the full-length revival, notably the POB one, but they've largely been a mixed bag- it's likely, not economical for most companies to produce another big classic if it's not going to be a slam dunk.

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