Some brief moments from Godunov’s last ballet part with the Bolshoi, 1979.
“O, he is the courageous captain of compliments.
He fights as you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and proportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two, and
the third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk
button, a duellist, a duellist; a gentleman of the
very first house, of the first and second cause:
ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso! the
hai!“
from “Romeo and Juliet“ by Shakespeare