26.01.2015

Tatar Opera and Ballet Theatre company performs for Belgium’s Tatar community

The company presented Adolphe Adam’s Giselle ballet in Alsemberg, a green suburb of Brussels.

(Brussels, 26 January, Tatar-inform, Lilia Schmitz). Tatar Opera and Ballet Theatre’s tour became a special event for Belgium’s Tatar community. Adolphe Adam’s ballet Giselle was presented in Alsemberg, a green suburb of Brussels.

The show was the first in the Tatarstan company’s tour that began over two months ago. The team have performed sixty times in seven countries in Europe. On 2 February, on completing their tour in the Netherlands, the company will go back home.

The local audience that included Belgians and Tatars living in Belgium welcomed the artists as their good acquaintances, as the Tatarstan company goes to Belgium several times a year. According to Tina Van Bockstael, De Meent Centre director, the company is one of the best in the world.

De Schrijver Veerle ballet school head remarked on the production’s top choreography level and precision. The Kazan team was a revelation for her, she shared.

The lead part, Giselle, was performed by the Brazilian Amanda Gomes, a Bolshoi Theatre School graduate and the first principal dancer from South America in the history of Kazan school of ballet. Her Giselle was ultimately exposed and fragile. With her dance the ballerina skilfully expressed the burgeoning of a new feeling, ecstatic joy from feeling loved, happiness to give love to her man and the whole tragedy of the story’s second, mystical, part.

Members of Tatars of Belgium, stunned by the performance’s emotional depth, showered the artists with flowers with tears in their eyes.