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Maria Kochetkova insists she is not a perfectionist, but from today's rehearsal, you would never know it.
Her assignment this morning is the Don Quixote grand pas de deux. Her partner is San Francisco Ballet fellow principal Joan Boada, and the mood is subdued, but intense. Kochetkova quietly stretches on the floor in an airy studio in the SFB Association Building. Ballet master Ricardo Bustamante flips on the music; Boada accidentally steps on Kochetkova's toe. She squeals like a kitten, but recovers and runs through the first steps with feline assurance. Still, the dancers aren't connecting the way they should in this duet. And in her variation, Kochetkova has trouble turning and brandishing Kitri's fan at the same time. She tries it again, and again, and, somehow, it all comes together.
No purrs of satisfaction though. "I will probably never get it perfect," says Kochetkova after the rehearsal. She is small, but exquisitely proportioned. Her face suggests an almost childlike youthfulness that belies her 24 years. The fan incident gnaws at her. "I think that I am clumsy in real life. I don't worry about fouettes. I worry about the little things, taking somebody's hand or manipulating the fan. You probably need to be Spanish. It will come with experience."
Despite today's fan troubles, since Kochetkova arrived at SFB in the summer...
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