Nadezhda Batoeva and Vladimir Shklyarov rehearsing Don Quixote (repetiteur Galina Kekisheva)

We are happy to share with you a new ballet reheasal video! This time artists of the Mariinsky Nadezhda Batoeva and Vladimir Shklyarov are rehearsing scenes from the sparkling "Don Quixote" by Alexander Gorsky to music by Ludwig Minkus. They are coached by Galina Petrovna Kekisheva — a real bearer of the St. Petersburg ballet tradition, a graduate of the class of Agrippina Vaganova, in 1948–1971 a soloist with the Leningrad State Academic Kirov Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

Featuring accompanist Margarita Barsova and conductor Arseny Shuplyakov.

Видео Nadezhda Batoeva and Vladimir Shklyarov rehearsing Don Quixote (repetiteur Galina Kekisheva) канала Mariinsky Theatre