 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Beauty with a sinking feeling.(Review)
From:
The Evening Standard (London, England)
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March 10, 2003| Author:
Flanders, Judith
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Byline: JUDITH FLANDERS
The Sleeping Beauty Royal Opera House
ENDURING Natalia Makarova's The Sleeping Beauty, one knows how the survivors of the Titanic felt. Safe in their boats, they watched, despairing, as their comrades went under.
The ROH conveys a similar scene of devastation. Makarova is not a choreographer, she is a splicer. She has taken bits of The Sleeping Beauty she grew up with at the Kirov in the 1960s, mixed in a patchwork of fourth...
