The late fifties and early sixties. Wide skirts, carefree melodies, girls dancing on the go. In 1956, Fred Parris wrote a song In the Still of the Night for the group The Five Satins, and it made history half a century later, coming in at number 90 on the list of the top 500 songs of all time. Matthew Golding took it and other melodies of the era to tell a story about eternal love - full of melancholy (because the hero's beloved is long gone in our world) and gentle light of undying feelings. Lucia Lacarra, one of the most famous and sought-after ballerinas of our time, plays the title role in this ballet.
Melancholy is her second name: Tatyana in Onegin, Juliette, Giselle, Marguerite in The Lady of the Camellias - each of the roles that made the ballerina famous in the Bavarian Ballet had a delicate melody of sadness. To stand in front of the audience, to disappear from the embrace of her partner, to compose a poem of memories in every pas – that is all Lacarra. And in this production she is the embodiment of lost happiness. On the video backdrop are idyllic scenes from the past, on the stage the ballerina swaps her court shoes for pointe shoes and flies up in weightless supports, while Golding, one of the most courteous cavaliers in the world of ballet, cradles her, spins her around and reluctantly lets her down. And in their duet they are so inseparable that this performance can accurately be called a hymn to eternal feeling. In 2022, Lucia Lacarra won the honorable Spanish Max Awards for the role in this ballet.
