Don Quixote depicts a scene where the chivalrous but delusional lead character describes windmills as "hulking giants" and mistakes their blades as "long arms." ...

After shuttering in 2023, Lookingglass Theatre returns to the Chicago arts scene with Circus Quixote, an acrobatic adaptation of the classic Miguel de Cervantes epic Don Quixote.Above, actor ...

If you want a taste, Chapter 8 of Part 1 is the windmills scene, and Chapter 29 of Part 2, in which Quixote attacks a flour mill thinking he’s liberating a castle, is only six pages and stands ...

No dance work is as closely associated with Boston Ballet as Rudolf Nureyev’s “Don Quixote.” Back in 1982, Nureyev — then a still spry 44 — staged his version of the 1869 Marius Petipa ...

Lookingglass returns to live performance after an 18-month hiatus with a rambunctious circus-inspired take on Don Quixote. ... against windmills, ... scenes of the show. As for Don Quixote, ...

Don Quixote 2.0: A Windmill Worth Tilting At. ... They don’t want the landscape spoiled by giant, twirling blades atop tall towers. Robert Baxter, head of CBC Wind Energy Solutions, ...

When Quixote encounters ‘demons’, actually the windmills, we have two chuvanna thadi characters in the scene,” says Venugopalan. While Nelliyodu plays Quixano, Kalamandalam Pradeep is Quixote.

Last weekend, the University Ballet of Chicago (UBallet) staged a two-hour production of Don Quixote, the famous 1869 version scored by Ludwig Minkus and choreographed by Marius Petipa. It was a ...

A painting of Don Quixote, the protagonist of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s novel, ... One, the famous windmill scene occurs very early — chapter VIII in the first volume.

A few scenes such as Quixote’s vision of Dulcinea or his tilting at windmills are retained, but, in general, the ballet offers a vivid pretext for character dancing in the Spanish and gypsy ...