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Choreograph Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Chapter One, Stanza XX
Robert AbramsThere are many great Russian dancers. Russian literature is often quite powerful too. An acquaintance of mine asserted that Tchaikovsky's 'Eugene Onegin' is a perfect opera. This opera is based upon Aleksandr Pushkin's lyric poem 'Eugene Onegin'. As I was reading the poem, I came across a passage in Chapter One, Stanza XX which describes a section of a ballet.
The passage, in Vladimir Nabokov's translation, reads as follows:
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Resplendent, half ethereal,
obedient to the magic bow,
surrounded by a throng of nymphs,
Istßmina stands: she,
while touching with one foot the floor,
gyrates the other slowly,
and suddenly a leap, and suddenly she flies,
she flies like fluff from Eol's lips
now twines and now untwines her waist
and beats one swift small foot against the other.
Here is the challenge. Choreograph the passage above.
