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- proper n. A taxonomic genus within the family Rhodomelaceae.
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Examples
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Alongside this, he revived Laurencia, a dramatic story-ballet set in Spain.
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Mikhailovsky Ballet, LondonThe second week of the Mikhailovsky's season ranges from a revival of Chabukiani's Laurencia (Tue & Wed) to a mixed bill (Sun) which embraces the full gamut of the company's repertory.
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Laurencia is the tale of a plucky Spanish peasant-girl who, following her violation by the local bourgeois tyrant, persuades her fellow-villagers to take up arms against him.
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As a ballet student in the 1970s I remember watching a brief scrap of black-and-white film of the great Bolshoi ballerina Maya Plisetskaya dancing Laurencia.
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Was it possible that Plisetskaya was appropriating the message of Laurencia for her own ends?
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Messer could only find enough material to revive two acts of Laurencia.
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And now, for the Mikhailovsky company, Mikhail Messerer has revisited Chabukiani's Laurencia, first created for the Kirov in1939.
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Most fascinating, though, is the scene in which the ballet gears into revolutionary mode, as Laurencia incites the village to revolt.
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Laurencia and her friend Jacinta emerge filthy, limping, traumatised by their ordeal – their body language is shockingly stark.
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Sargassum species and red algae of the genus Laurencia are also common.
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