Compañía Nacional de Danza

It is a ballet that stands out for its elegance and grace that permeate even the most complex technical difficulties. The diversion is structured in eight variations and a pas de deux that, with the prologue and the coda, offer a wide margin of brilliance to the main couple, the six soloists and the small group of dancers. The original plot deals with the seemingly impossible romance between a Spanish gypsy and a Napoleonic officer. Although the intervention of the male protagonist leaves its mark both in its variation and in the pas de deux, “Paquita” is above all a female ballet, a reflection of the stylistic moment in which it was created and as such places special emphasis on the finesse and precision of the more demanding classical figures, both in the interventions of the soloists and in the movements of the ensemble that Petipa intersperses throughout his choreography, granting the corps de ballet a certain prominence, a prelude to later trends.