Always gorgeous, but not her best performance all around. I don't know what went wrong in the adagio - she'd been balancing so beautifully and then suddenly there was that. I wonder if a shoe broke or something because she seemed to hesitate as soon as she went en pointe? And she practically fell off her fouettes at the end.
It becomes obvious watching this video this video they are changing the choreography to make the piece fit in such a small space. Even though the film quality is weak, the lighting is not great, and the sound quality marginal, it is worth watching just to see how two performers of this caliber change such an enormous classical piece in order to perform it in the space equal to a large kitchen!
I think that this is in 1990 at the Opera de Paris, this is the only time that she danced this role with Patrick Dupont. The scene looks small because it is filmed from the top and from the side, of course the scene is smaller than the scene of the Bolshoi, but it is not a small scene .....
