Ballet

Don Quixote

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*Don Quixote* is a three-act classical ballet drawn from episodes of Cervantes’s novel, with choreography rooted in Marius Petipa’s 19th-century staging and music by Ludwig Minkus. At American Ballet Theatre in New York City, it functions as both repertory staple and living archive, a way for a major company to test classical style against contemporary standards of speed and clarity. The story centers less on the knight’s delusions than on the street-level romance of Kitri and Basilio, with Don Quixote watching from the margins. Its cultural significance in NYC lies in how it keeps Imperial-era ballet technique in regular circulation, for better and sometimes for show.