Companhia Nacional de Bailado

It is based on episodes from “El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” [The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha], by Miguel de Cervantes, alternating between realistic, popular nature and a world of fantasy and dream. In 1900, Alexander Gorsky presented his own version with choreographic and musical changes, based on which Eric Volodine created the performance he premiered with the National Ballet of Portugal in 1990, and that is now back on stage.  


The National Ballet of Portugal was established at the initiative of the Portuguese Government in 1977. Over the course of four decades, it has presented international seminal pieces, both the inevitable classics and choreographies by Balanchine, De Keersmaeker, Forsythe, Jooss, Kylián, Limón, Van Manen or Spöerli. Concurrently it has commissioned a series of pieces generating an identity of its own, with a strong emphasis on Portuguese authors such as Armando Jorge, Fernando Duarte, Olga Roriz, Rui Lopes Graça or Vasco Wellenkamp.