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Nacho Duato received the Zolotoi Sofit for Without Words, Duende, and Nunc Dimittis, his ballets staged at the Mikhailovsky Theatre. These works competed in the Best Ballet Performance category with other recognized masterworks of modern choreography: Angelin Preljocaj’s Le Parc, performed at the Mariinsky Theatre, and Slava Samodurov’s In a Minor Key, staged at the Mikhailovsky Theatre. The latter production demonstrated that Samodurov, a distinguished dancer, intends to carve out an illustrious career as a choreographer. He quite recently took up the position of Artistic Director of Ballet at the Ekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre. Nacho Duato joked at the Zolotoi Sofit ceremony, “I still haven’t had time to unpack my cases and you’re already giving me an award!” He has been in charge of the Mikhailovsky Theatre ballet company for only 10 months. As well as the three ballets which were awarded prizes, Duato has also composed the ballet Prelude and is preparing to stage a new version of The Sleeping Beauty. Nacho Duato’s one-act ballets can be seen on 19 and 20 November.
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1833–2012 Mikhailovsky Theatre St. Petersburg
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