Мария Хорева (Пахита)

I think she is very smart, free-spirited, confident and cheerful. The Pachita ballet became for me the first big ballet that I prepared this season. And at first I had to say that I thought that it would be difficult for me to play this part in an actor's way, because my heroine is a gypsy, she is free.

It's a very lively and fun character. As soon as I started to get acquainted with the literature and the choreography of the ballet, I realized that I like this character, this girl, and I like Pachito so much, in the original movie "Preciosa", and I like the novel "La Cervantes" with the gypsy girl, and I like the choreography. I immediately felt very pleased to work on this role. The choreographer is Yuriy Smekalov.

And my rehearsals created such an atmosphere of happiness that it was really very pleasant and very fun to work. It was in October when I first danced this role, but now I probably even doubly pleased to immerse myself in this role again, to look for some things that

Maybe it's similar to the one I have in my head. I would like to share my story with the audience. I think this ballet is one of the best, one of my favorite on the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. Its color and joy are very valuable and pleasant for us, the artists, and I think the audience, too.

I think the first time I saw the ballet "Pahita" live was this performance a few years ago at the Marinsky Theatre premiere. Even if I'm not mistaken, the general rehearsal was shown to us by the students of the Vaganova Academy. I remember that he was very impressed and interested in it.

In general, there are some excerpts according to the hit, but this ballet was three-act, as far as I know, the original version was not preserved. In the choreography of Marius and Petipa, only the grand pae from the third act was preserved. I think I watched a lot of videos on the Internet, because this is one of the main classical ballets and such a pillar.

in the history of ballet and the choreography of Petipa is certainly very beautiful. When I was told that I would perform this performance, I didn't believe it at first. I thought that this couldn't be happening and that it was too much happiness. There are a lot of dances, a lot of pantomimes, a lot of acting moments in this role and so much

and the interaction with other dancers. I was very pleased to dance at that moment. It's an unbearable feeling when you can play such a performance, when you can reveal your character's skin and really become a pohita for a few hours of this performance. It's very interesting.