Don Quixote

Vladimir Shklyarov, a ballet star, tragically passed away at the age of 39 after falling from the fifth floor of a building, announced a representative from the Mariinsky Theatre.

According to the theatre’s spokesperson, Shklyarov fell on Saturday. The 39-year-old dancer had been taking painkillers for a back injury and was scheduled for spinal surgery on Monday.

The Greek National Opera Ballet (364 Syngrou) opens its season with a revival of "Don Quixote" by Ludwig Minkus, reimagined by Brazilian-German choreographer Thiago Bordin. This fresh interpretation, infused with traditional Spanish dance, revitalizes Marius Petipa's original choreography, set to Minkus' lively score.

With a life-changing decision, famous Turkish actor Hakan Meriçliler has started living in a windmill, located in the southwestern province of Muğla's Bodrum district, which he bought and renovated.

"When I learned that this windmill was for sale, I bought it immediately," said the actor.

Personalities representing the diplomatic and cultural life of the Spanish speaking countries in Bucharest, alongside the Spanish writer Care Santos, will read from the work of Miguel de Cervantes and several other great Spanish authors to the Romanian audience, on the International Book Day, informs a press release of the Cervantes Institute sent to AGERPRES.

The Bolshoi Ballet pays tribute to one of its greatest dancers and teachers, Mikhail Lavrovsky, with a show that premiered in Moscow on May 4 and is traveling outside Russia for the first time for three shows in Greece, just a month shy of Lavrov's 76th birthday.

BELGRADE - The International Dance Day was marked in Belgrade with the Don Quixote ballet produced by the National Theatre of Serbia.

Prima-ballerina of the National Ballet from Amsterdam, Anna Tsygankova, and a principal dancer of the Royal Ballet in London, Matthew Golding, premiered in front of the Belgrade audience in the Sava Centre on Wednesday evening.

BELGRADE - The International Dance Day will be marked in Belgrade on Wednesday evening with the performance of "Don Quixote", featuring internationally acclaimed ballet dancers Anna Tsygankova, prima ballerina at the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam, and Matthew Golding, principal with the Royal Ballet in London.

Spain on March 17 unearthed the apparent remains of literary giant and father of the modern novel Miguel de Cervantes, found in a Madrid convent almost 400 years after his death.
      

BELGRADE - The International Theatre Festival Slavija 2015 will be opened by Serbia's celebrated actor Petar Bozovic at the Slavija Theatre in Belgrade Monday evening, and eight plays will be staged before its closing on March 16.

Istanbul’s first squat house, which was converted into a social meeting center by activists following last year’s Gezi Park protests, is under threat of evacuation, according to a civil solidarity group.