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...The trend has now reached France, where the Paris Opera Ballet’s Petipa-inspired Don Quixote is followed this month by two reinventions of the ballet: Rui Lopes Graça’s for the Ballet du Rhin, and José Montalvo...
...Ecuador’s probably most remarkable leader, though, is José María Velasco Ibarra – a liberal and a populist whose career, charisma and multiple presidencies stretched from the 1930s to the 1970s....
...The directors, José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu, struggle to repeat the filmic sensation they created for their 2004 Paris version of Rameau’s Les Paladins....
...Montalvo in Les Paladins....
...José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu have put street dancing on stage in a life-enhancing, high-octane production that barely pauses for breath....
...The impact of film is even greater in the 2004 Chatelet staging of Rameau’s Les Paladins (Opus Arte): here we can digest Jose Montalvo’s bewitching video footage far better than in the theatre....
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