Production and choreography - Johan Kobborg
Don Quixote
Premiere: The Leonid Yacobson Ballet, St. Petersburg - 2017 / Sets and Costumes - Jerome Kaplan / Lighting - Vincent Millet
..."a masterpiece of balance that remains recognisably traditional but is also refreshingly new."
- DanceTabs UK
The production received 7 Golden Mask nominations in Moscow 2019, including Best Production and Best Choreographer.
The production received the Performer of the Year Award at the Golden Light Awards in St Petersburg 2019.
The performance has toured throughout Europe and is performed regularly at some of Russia's most distinguished theatres including the Bolshoi, Mariinsky Stanislavski and Alexandrinsky theatres.
The production has been performed by a number of high profile dancers including Kimin Kim and Ivan Vasiliev.
"Kobborg has deconstructed the work; mixing up the narrative’s building blocks before reassembling them in a masterpiece of balance that remains recognisably traditional but is also refreshingly new."
- DanceTabs UK
"Johan Kobborg is one of the few stage directors in the world with taste and understanding of the classical ballet."
- Bolshoi Magazine RU
"The Yacobson Ballet demonstrates simply dizzying steps bordering on fantasy." - Interessant RU
"The disappearing art of pantomime generously poured in this edition to all characters."
- Bolshoi Magazine RU
"Kobborg thinks of dance as a wonderful dancer and logical as the heir to the Danish school. He gave love stories to the bullfighter Espada and the Street Dancer, since they have been competing in dance for centuries, and Sancho Panza, usually deprived of female attention"
- RG.RU
