while papers needed to be written, tests studied for, and presentations prepared, my history of ballet class gave me a nice study break as we visited the royal danish theatre once again to watch the royal danish ballet perform marius petipa's "la bayadère".
the royal danish ballet's version of this classic romantic ballet is set in victorian times in the late 1800s when india was a british colony. the story is one of a love triangle between a young british lieutenant, william; the daughter of a vice consul, emma; and the temple dancer, nikiya. william forsakes his bride (emma) and bourgeois propriety to follow nikiya into the kingdom of the shades in a scene that is perhaps one of the most famous in classical ballet. 32 temple dancers, all dressed in white tutus, appear one by one, a seemingly endless revelation of ethereal white beings that slowly embody the stage.
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