Jorge Luis Morejon plays the High Brahman in La Bayadere. Palm Beach, Florida, 1991
Jorge Luis Morejon interpreted the High Brahmin in the ballet La Bayadère directed and choreograhed by Tony Catanzaro, artistic director and choreographer of Ballet Theatre of Miami Company, Miami, Florida. He shared the stage with Carlos Danaan.
"Bayadère is set in India (very popular then, thanks to a well-reported tour by the Prince of Wales!). The plot is usually described as over-complicated and ridiculous, but is actually a fairly simple variant on 'A and B love each other but are respectively unrequitedly loved by C and D, who conspire to destroy them'. Here A and B are Nikiya, a temple dancer (a bayadère) and Solor, a princely warrior; while C and D are the High Brahmin of Nikiya's temple and Gamzatti, the local Rajah's daughter.
"Bayadère is set in India (very popular then, thanks to a well-reported tour by the Prince of Wales!). The plot is usually described as over-complicated and ridiculous, but is actually a fairly simple variant on 'A and B love each other but are respectively unrequitedly loved by C and D, who conspire to destroy them'. Here A and B are Nikiya, a temple dancer (a bayadère) and Solor, a princely warrior; while C and D are the High Brahmin of Nikiya's temple and Gamzatti, the local Rajah's daughter.
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In brief, Gamzatti has Nikiya killed in order to marry Solor herself; Solor in despair dreams of Nikiya's spirit in the Kingdom of the Shades; and when he is forced to marry Gamzatti, the gods destroy the temple and everyone in it. The spirits of Solor and Nikiya are, of course, reunited in an apotheosis."
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