Swedish rhapsody.(The Royal Swedish Ballet celebrates its 225 year anniversary)(Column)(Brief Article)

From: Dance Magazine | Date: September 1, 1998| Author: Barnes, Clive | Copyright information

What makes a ballet company? I suppose I ask this in something like a Platonic sense--what is the ethos, the spirit, of a ballet company? What makes it tick--first, tick in some kind of starburst of energy, then go on ticking, for years, for decades--for centuries? I found myself thinking darkly about this a few months ago in Stockholm. I had gone to this beautiful and self-styled Venice of the North--does Venice ever call itself the Stockholm of the South, I wonder--to assist, as...

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