Death of Nikiya
The Betrothal Feast
Nikiya is handed the basket of flowers concealing the snake, is bitten, refuses the Rajah's antidote and dies. Not a separately numbered dance in Petipa's 1877 structure — it is the dramatic close of the betrothal scene — but catalogued here because it is filmed and named consistently in its own right. Recordings run roughly 6-8 minutes and generally take in the veena dance and the basket dance as well.
6 videos
- LA BAYADÈRE - Nikiya’s Death (Irina Kolesnikova - SPBT)
- Mixed
- Classical
- Solo
- Full Section
- Dramatic
- Female
- LA BAYADÈRE - Nikiya’s Death (Tamara Rojo - Royal Ballet)
- Mixed
- Classical
- Solo
- Full Section
- Dramatic
- Female
- LA BAYADÈRE - Nikiya’s Death (Viktoria Tereshkina - Mariinsky Ballet)
- Mixed
- Classical
- Solo
- Full Section
- Dramatic
- Female
- LA BAYADÈRE - Nikiya’s Death (Olga Smirnova - Bolshoi Ballet)
- Mixed
- Classical
- Solo
- Full Section
- Dramatic
- Female
- LA BAYADÈRE - Nikiya’s Death (Marianela Núñez - Royal Ballet)
- Mixed
- Classical
- Solo
- Full Section
- Dramatic
- Female
- LA BAYADÈRE - Nikiya’s Death (Svetlana Zakharova - Bolshoi Ballet)
- Mixed
- Classical
- Solo
- Full Section
- Dramatic
- Female