Le Corsaire

         I introduce "La Corsaire".  This Japanese tittle is "Kaizoku".  The story's stage is the beach of the Mediterranean Sea.  The ship with three pirates is wrecked because of storm and they are launched by the sea.  Then, they see Greek daughter Medora and her friend who are beautiful slave girls.  They save three pirates, Conrad, his friend and his tadaomi Ari.  The pirates watch the situation that slave girls are bought and sold, so the pirates manage to save slave girls.  Conrad and medora fall in love each other and they dance in a cave.  However, slave traders let Conrad sleep in order to take revenge and they take Medora and the other slave girls away.  In flower garden of the Turkish governor-general, slave girls are dancing.  Then, pirates show up and take Medora and slave girls away and escape by a ship.  The ship sinks because of storm but only Medora and Conrad are saved miraculously.
   The scene of flower garden of act3 is so beautiful.  I think this scene is like another world in this ballet.  There is pas de deux of Medora, Conrad, and Ari at act2 and this pas de deux is famous, so it is often danced at gala concert. I had danced the pas de deux once before although the choreographers are different, so I like this pas de deux very much.  This ballet is unfamiliar story but I want you to watch it .