The prospect of a revival of Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote by the Australian Ballet in Melbourne is a reminder of that long-ago moment when the greatest male dancer on earth conceived of this role for himself and Robert Helpmann, that extraordinary actor-dancer, played the character role of the Don. We have the film of what Nureyev and Helpmann did together and the current revival is very much in that tradition.
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