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became one of the regular visiting performances of the
Mariinsky (and then the Bolshoi) theater and was performed on almost all the significant foreign tours of the ballet troupe. The world maximum of popularity of the “Middle Duet” occurred in 2006–2008, when the number of performances of the ballet miniature exceeded a hundred in the largest cities of Europe and around the world. In the fall of 2006, Ratmansky also moved the production to the stage of the New York City Ballet.
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The “Middle Duet” was a particular success with the public. An original production by 33-year-old dancer and choreographer Alexei
Ratmansky to the music of contemporary composer Yuri Khanon immerses the audience in a gloomy world, where a mysterious duet comes to life in a ray of light: to the sounds
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After his appointment as chief choreographer at the
Bolshoi Theater, Alexei Ratmansky almost immediately transferred the ballet act to the main stage of the country. The next premiere (performed by Svetlana Zakharova) took place on January 22, 2006. In addition to the enterprise, “The Middle Duet”
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From the very first show, “The Middle Duet” was a great success not only with the public, but above all with the ballet dancers. Having at their disposal the phonogram of the first part of the “Middle
Symphony” (taken from the Olympia CD), many soloists of the Mariinsky, and after them of other
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Ratmansky's offer, citing his reluctance to deal with the state theater. And only after two months of negotiations he agreed on the condition that Ratmansky would undertake all negotiations with the theater. In the booklet dedicated to the premiere of the
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Ratmansky and acquired the status of a kind of calling card of the young choreographer. When touring in Moscow, the Mariinsky Theater always attached the Middle Duet to its
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Mariinsky Theater. Without bothering himself at all with his career and communicating with professionals, Yuri Khanon has long and firmly moved into the internal underground.
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Last year’s “Mask” laureate Alexei
Ratmansky showed his best work – “Middle Duet” to Khanon’s music. The choreography of “Duet” — dynamic, intense, integral, in vocabulary in no way inferior to world standards — became a real discovery. The advantage of Ratmansky as a choreographer seemed
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of a piano and orchestra, the partner, with pulsating gestures, tries to hold his partner, who continuously moves on pointe shoes, weaving a complex a web of sharp and sensual steps. This is the only modern miniature that graced the two-act performance...
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Ballets”, a minute of silence was announced. Of the three ballets shown that evening, two years later only the Middle Duet remained in the repertoire.
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ballet, Ratmansky himself recalled several times that preliminary negotiations about the production were very difficult. And even the headline of his announcement of the Middle Duo had the following title: “To persuade
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theaters, began to perform the “Middle Duet” in numerous enterprises and concerts. The concert performance of this number took place without decorations and with a reduced cast of performers.
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premieres as a win-win “bonus”. Reviewers noted that against the backdrop of museum monster ballets, Ratmansky's minimalist masterpiece is pure exclusive: “in the attire of the
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in November 1998 to the music of the first movement of the Middle Symphony. The ten-minute production became Ratmansky's debut as a choreographer at the Mariinsky Theater.
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