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peared in costumes with bodices of the same salmon color as the draperies. This set featured five solo performances by both men and women.
The most thrilling set was the “Shades” from the third act of the ballet La Bayadere, which John Shipman had discussed with us as we waited to buy our tickets. He thinks this dance the ultimate in ballet drama. The program backs him up by stating, “In the history of ballet theater, there is no equal to the ‘Shades,’ conceivably in the degree of poetic pervasiveness.”
The “Shades” opens with the corps de ballet, 32 in number, appearing Individually in stark white costumes with filmy arm scarfs attached from the back of the dancers’ wrists. They enter at center stage from behind a black curtain onto a raised platform that slopes on the viewer’s right to the stage floor.
For a moment, one sees each beautiful ballerina pose and then dance down the incline, to circle forward in a moth-like brilliance and grace.
We arrived home after 1 a.m. The excitement of this shared occasion filled us with gratitude that we were privileged to be a part of an historic Kirov tour and that Anne Stephens, RAAC director, had arranged all the details of the trip, complete with fine local Virginia white wine to accompany our jolly picnic before the performance on the lawn at Wolf Trap.
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