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Tulsa Ballet will tilt at windmills one last time, with the final performance of the ballet “Don Quixote.” It’s been a decade since Tulsa Ballet last presented this full-length, classical ...
Don Quixote depicts a scene where the chivalrous but delusional lead character describes windmills as "hulking giants" and mistakes their blades as "long arms." ...
You don't need to have read Cervantes’ Don Quixote to be familiar with its most celebrated scene where, mistaking a cluster of windmills for fearsome giants, our hero mounts his steed and ...
San Francisco Ballet Program Five: Helgi Tomasson and Yuri Possokhov’s “Don Quixote.” Through 2 p.m. Sunday, March 29, War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, $68-$150 ...
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 ...
In other scenes, Don Quixote glimpses his beloved if distant Dulcinea, and cropping up everywhere is the famous windmill, the giant at which Quixote so famously tilted his lance and barely escaped ...
When George Balanchine created his "Don Quixote" in 1965, he told a collaborator that he could make the ballet because he had found a Dulcinea: the 19-year-old ballerina Suzanne Farrell. Now ...
We open on a movie set, as Toby (Adam Driver) directs a commercial loosely based on the famous windmill scene in which Don Quixote, a wannabe-knight errant obsessed with bringing chivalry back, ...
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 ...
One scene in Lost in La Mancha shows a stack of call sheets for The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. It lists February 1st as the latest scheduled date in the production, billed as “Day 86.” It ...