"The world may be small, but the magic of the ballet world is infinite and embraces everyone who wants to be part of the world dance. It is about passion, love, trust and loyalty to your Terpsichore."

It is the evening of March 6th, and I am getting ready to become a part of this magic world myself, once again. This time though, it is slightly different. Instead of going to the opera house, I am going to “Lund Kino”, where the live broadcast of Don Quixote from Moscow Bolshoi theater is shown. Don Quixote is a stunning production, based on the epic masterpiece by Miguel de Cervantes, originally created for the Bolshoi by Marius Petipa in 1869 and I am very excited to get to see it, together with few of my colleagues and friends from ESS.

I arrive at the cinema, partially dressed up for an opera and partially for a cinema. The performance starts with several short gaps, but it is soon improves and we get a nice, high-definition quality of image and surround sound.

Watching a ballet on a screen is different than live ballet on a stage. At the end of the acts we want to clap, but it feels a bit strange to clap to the screen. However, some of the incredible acts completely capture me, and for some time I am a part of it, I am a part of the magic world of music and beauty. I forget that I’m not in a real opera, that I am not watching the real dancers and I clap. I want to get all the excitement out of myself and praise the talented dancers, whose performance is just astonishing.

The performance lasts for three hours (including two half hour breaks), although I can keep watching endlessly. But the wonderful evening is over. We are very happy and pleased with the ballet. Time to catch a bus now. This time of a day we get only one every 30 minutes...

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