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...The mouthwatering entrée to the grand pas de deux was danced with such thrilling physical rapport that it outshone the party tricks that followed....
...The inclusion of the dear old Le Corsaire pas de deux, the prawn cocktail of many a gala menu, was presumably intended as a reminder of these juicy early years....
...Muntagirov’s variation in the grand pas de deux combined elegant manners with sublime classical technique: tight chaîné turns mapping the stage, every jump landed in fastidious fifth position....
...Last year’s Don Quixote performances were gold-plated by flying visits from his old Royal Ballet colleagues Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov and the Birmingham leg of the current tour of Swan Lake featured...
...Marianela Nuñez was a scene-stealing Mitzi Kaspar, her box-fresh pointe shoes highlighting her impeccable footwork....
...And then, as the masked house held its breath, Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov began their masterclass in classical pairwork in the Sugar Plum Fairy pas de deux: unforced travelling fouettés, tremulous...
...The ears and the tail went, as ever, to Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov, both clearly bursting with pride and joy at returning to their beloved stage....
...Nuñez, 38 this month, remains at the height of her powers, the incarnation of the violin of Concert Master Sergey Levitin....
...Núñez is the embodiment of these apparent contradictions: a diva in a dirndl....
...Marianela Nuñez’s smiley manners are an odd fit for the bored and nervy Natalia Petrovna, and her shoulders and upper back are a mite unyielding for the Ashton style....
...Bolshoi soloist Jacopo Tissi learned the ballet in less than a fortnight and there were inevitably some rough edges in his crowd scenes but he made an elegant, last-minute partner for Marianela Nuñez....
...Nuñez has been dancing Gamzatti since she was 19 and has long had the measure of this thwarted princess....
...The constant mooching and hugging of the sisters began to look like padding and Thiago Soares appeared underpowered and unconvincing as the dashing Vershinin, giving Marianela Nuñez little to work with....
...The first “white swan” scene, the pas de trois and the two main pas de deux have all been retained but much of the text is now solid Scarlett....
...Tierney Heap, with her machine-stitch pas de bourrée and ballistic jetés, was an impressive queen of the wilis....
...The dancers raised their game accordingly, Marianela Nuñez, Valentino Zucchetti and James Hay flitting through Schubert’s Ninth with animatronic precision....
...The Don Quixote pas de deux, matched with a picture-perfect Marianela Núñez, was a brave choice but I suspect that the submerged nine-tenths of his performance was being played out in the mind’s eye of an...
...In repertory to March 14, roh.org.uk Live cinema relay (danced by Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov), February 28...
...the outrageous Diana and Actaeon pas de deux....
...Balanchine’s firecracker Tchaikovsky pas de deux was to have shown Natalia Osipova in the arms of Steven McRae, and earlier this year they danced it sublimely at a gala....
...Mohamed Amine Benmbarek, a Moroccan architect, perished alongside Patricia San Martin, a 61-year-old niece of Chile’s ambassador to Mexico, Ricardo Nunez....
...Her Manon has fine moments – the rape scene with Gary Avis was repulsively good – but this ballet is only as strong as its central partnership and Nuñez has yet to find her Des Grieux....
...Acosta’s other companion is Marianela Núñez, all feeling in MacMillan’s Winter Dreams duet, all charm and bravura in the barmy Diana and Actaeon pas de deux in which she and Acosta knock spots off the look-at-me...
...madness of peasant vivacities, arquebuses, dropped goblets, a maypole, frantic mumming from “chaperones”, tippling cadets, fiercely busy supernumeraries, and a lurking unease – not least in the classical pas...
...Nuñez is far too polite to say so but it is unlikely she has ever attempted a pas de deux with a partner quite so ungainly....
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