Noella pontois biography of georgetown

Rudolf Noureev et Noëlla Pontois dans « Don Quichotte » – 1981 – Francette Levieux  / Fondation Rudolf Noureev  – Ballet in three acts with prologue – Based on several scenes taken from the novel by Miguel de Cervantes – Music : Ludwig Minkus
Choreography : Ruldof Noureev d’après Marius Petipa

Without « Don Quixote », the legend of Nureyev wouldn’t have existed!

It was in the winter of 1960 that Janine Runguet from the Parisian Artistic and Literary Agency (in charge of cultural exchanges between France and the U.S.S.R.) went to Leningrad to organise the famous Kirov Theatre Ballet’s tour in the West. On one of her free evenings, she saw a poster for a ballet that was unknown at that time, Don Quixote” by Petipa, to music by Minkus. They tried to dissuade her from attending this old-fashioned performance, but she stood fast and discovered – speechless – the young Rudolf Nureyev in the role of the