La Bayad re Bayadere Reviews Bayadere Performances Bayadere postings 'If you don't like Bayad re, you don't like ballet'. Clive Barnes was talking about the single act, the Kingdom of the Shades, which was at the time all the West knew of Petipa's La Bayad re: but he is identifying the reason why 'Bayad re' can still thrill us today, 120 years after its St Petersburg premiere, when dozens of ...