A man, a woman, a ballet hall. He is 84, she 60 years old. They look into each other’s eyes as if they were alone. He speaks softly, she listens. Then Alessandra Ferri pulls up the rehearsal skirt and immediately implements what choreographer John Neumeier tells her: “You’re not the right person – but the only one who can do it.” In the next moment, the dancer puts horror and determination in her face, doubt and despair at the sight of a person crouching on the ground in front of her. It is the dancer Vaclav Nijinsky, the title hero of the ballet biography of the same name, which Neumeier portrays as part of his “Ballet Days” returns to the stage of the Hamburg State Opera next Tuesday – with Ferri as Romola Nijinsky. As a woman at the side of a man who has fallen from the pedestal of his celebrity into madness and who has made his wife the advocate of his interests.
Alessandra Ferri dances Romola Nijinsky at the Ballet Days Hamburg – Culture
