ROYAL BALLET.(Brief Article)(Review)

From: Dance Magazine | Date: November 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

ROYAL BALLET SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE LONDON, ENGLAND JULY 6-31, 1999

(continued from October 1999 issue of Dance Magazine)

A short bus trip away from the Bolshoi Ballet's summer season at the London Coliseum, the Royal Ballet was returning to its roots at Sadler's Wells, but to a theater refurbished and essentially renewed. This "new" Sadler's Wells theatre, on the same site and utilizing the original basic structure, does indeed look and feel brand-new, with state-of-the-art equipment, chic architectural fixings, and a large, if disturbingly shallow, stage. In July 1945, ...