ANOTHER BOSTON BALLET DANCER INJURED IN `DON Q'.IN A MOMENT of high drama that recalled past mishaps with this work, Boston Ballet History The Boston Ballet is a professional ballet company based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams and was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. principal dancer A principal dancer is similar to a soloist in dance. However, principals are hired by a ballet or dance company to perform not only solos, but also pas de deux. A principal may be male or female. Aleksandra Koltun injured herself on stage March 30 during the opening performance of Don Quixote. Koltun was dancing the Dryad dryad or hamadryad In Greek mythology, tree nymphs. Dryads were originally the spirits of oak trees (drys: “oak”), but the name was later applied to all tree nymphs. scene in Act II when she landed on one foot and crumpled crum·ple v. crum·pled, crum·pling, crum·ples v.tr. 1. To crush together or press into wrinkles; rumple. 2. To cause to collapse. v.intr. 1. . Arthur Leeth, playing Don Quixote, swept her into his arms and carried her offstage, leaving the rest of the company to finish the act. Larissa Ponomarenko, the Street Dancer in Act I, changed costume to replace Koltun for the third act. Ponomarenko had been slated to dance her first Kitri on April 1. Although she and Yuri Yanowsky, as Basilio, had never rehearsed the Don Quixote wedding pas de deux pas de deux (French; “step for two”) Dance for two performers. A characteristic part of classical ballet, it includes an adagio, or slow dance, by the ballerina and her partner; solo variations by the male dancer and then the ballerina; and a coda, or , they managed to pull it off. Koltun ruptured her Achilles tendon Achilles tendon n. The large tendon connecting the heel bone to the calf muscle of the leg. Also called calcanean tendon, heel tendon. , but company physician Lyle Micheli, who was in the audience, iced her foot immediately and operated the following Monday. The injury was serious but is not expected to be career-threatening. Koltun, who sat out the rest of the season, is expected to return in the fall. Don Quixote entered the Boston Ballet repertory in 1982, with Rudolf Nureyev's staging. In 1983, during a preview performance in Boston before a European tour, Nureyev injured himself on stage, and the tour had to be cancelled. In 1989, when artistic director Anna Marie Holmes first staged the Petipa work for Boston, Laura Young was injured on stage and Jennifer Gelfand was pulled in from the audience to dance the leading role. Gelfand, now a principal dancer with the company, also danced one of the Kitris in this spring's performances, which ended April 9. |
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