Ballet Iowa. (Civic Center of Greater Des Moines, Des Moines, Iowa)

From: Dance Magazine | Date: January 1, 1994| Author: Williams, Jim | Copyright information

If anyone were keeping score of current productions, Jules Perrot would seem to be one of nineteenth-century ballet's least prolific big-name choreographers. Of course, Giselle and various restagings of Pas de Quatre keep his name on the charts. But didn't the guy do anything else?

Ballet Iowa unveiled one answer to that question in its season opener: Nayada and the Fisherman, a boy-meets-mermaid tale Perrot created in 1843 as Ondine, ou La Naiade.

Although ...

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