Paquita
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Paquita is a ballet in two acts and three scenes originally choreographed by Joseph Mazilier to music by Édouard Deldevez and Ludwig Minkus. Paul Foucher received royalties as librettist.
Carlotta Grisi as Paquita
Published piano reduction of the Valse favorite from Deldevez's original score. London, 1847
(left to right) Georges Ellie as Iñigo, Carlotta Grisi as Paquita, and Lucien Petipa as Lucien d'Hervilly in Act I-Scene 2. Paris, 1844
Students of the Imperial Ballet School in the Mazurka des enfants from Petipa's revival of Paquita. St. Petersburg, 1881
Romani people in Spain
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The Romani in Spain, known as Calé or gitanos belong to the Iberian Romani subgroup known as Calé, with smaller populations in Portugal and in Southern France. Their sense of identity and cohesion ste
Paquita
…revival of Paquita for the Bayerisches Staatsballett. The story takes place in Spain during the presence of Napoleon's army. The heroine is the young Romani girl, Paquita. Unbeknownst to Paquita, she is really of noble birth, having been abducted by Romani people when she was an infant. She saves the life…
Romani people in Spain, 1930s
España cañí, Spanish for "Gipsy Spain", including the Caló word cañí is the name of this bar in Madrid featuring a reproduction of Cante jondo, a 1929 painting by Julio Romero de Torres displaying stereotypes associated with Flamenco.