Napoli Pas de Six

Napoli, is a full-length ballet created in 1842 by Danish choreographer August Bournonville. The ballet was choreographed after Bournonville had visited Naples (it: Napoli), where he had been impressed by the local color and the vibrancy of a city in constant movement. The story tells the story of Teresina, a young Italian girl who falls in love with Gennaro, a fisherman.

Erik Aschengreen, ‘The Grand Old Man’ of Danish ballet history and dance journalism, has written of the premiere: “To attend the first night of Napoli on March 29 1842 was an intoxicating experience. The Danish audience, which had a reputation for being reserved, was completely carried away and became really quite Italian. They, “for want of castanets, accompanied the tarantella unceasingly with clapping and cheers, and there was a gaiety throughout the whole house which could waken the dead”, wrote an eyewitness”.

The Pas de Six from Napoli comes in the third act. The variations beautifully demonstrate the intricate footwork, crystalline clarity, beauteous lightness of movement, and the open generosity of spirit for which Bournonville is famous.

Nadia Doumiafevya, , Nina Immobilashvilii, Eugenia Repelskii, Doris Vidanya
with
Marat Legupski and Sergey Legupski