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Dance: Let this Sleeping Beauty lie The Kirov have restored their greatest ballet to its pristine condition. But to what effect?
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The world's greatest ballet had its premiere at the Maryinsky
Theatre in St Petersburg on 16 January 1890. It was choreographed by
Marius Petipa, the greatest choreographer of his time, composed by
Tchaikovsky, the greatest composer of his time, and performed by the
Maryinsky (Kirov) Ballet, possibly still the greatest company of its
time. How did The Sleeping Beauty look when performed in 1890?
Nobody really knows, this being ephemeral, unfilmed ballet,
dependent on fragile memories a...
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`Sleeping Beauty' awakes ballet season
The Boston Globe
; "A final definition of Czarist spectacle," ballet patron Lincoln Kirstein dubs "The Sleeping Beauty," the classic that Boston Ballet has selected to open its 30th season, with performances Thursday through Nov. 7 in the Wang Center. If you consider all the ways in which "Sleeping Beauty" is
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ARTS: No slave to tradition; What can a dazzling former star of the Kirov bring to the Royal Ballet's Sleeping Beauty? Natalia Makarova tells NADINE MEISNER how she plans to rouse this dormant production.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; The Royal Opera House's new home gleams with such technological luxuriousness, it's probably a living organism, hiding a powerful mind ready to pounce on unsuspecting, vulnerable individuals. Take what happened to Natalia - Natasha - Makarova the other evening. She found herself locked in her
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ARTS: No slave to tradition What can a dazzling former star of the Kirov bring to the Royal Ballet's Sleeping Beauty? Natalia Makarova tells NADINE MEISNER how she plans to rouse this dormant production
The Independent - London
; The Royal Opera House's new home gleams with such technological luxuriousness, it's probably a living organism, hiding a powerful mind ready to pounce on unsuspecting, vulnerable individuals. Take what happened to Natalia - Natasha - Makarova the other evening. She found herself locked in her
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The Royal Ballet's 'Sleeping Beauty'.(LIFE - ARTS ETC.)(POCKET PREVIEW)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Jean Battey Lewis, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Royal Ballet's 'Sleeping Beauty' Kennedy Center Opera House Tonight through Sunday HISTORY Everyone knows the story of a maiden caught in a spell who is awakened after a long sleep by the kiss of a handsome prince. It's a folk tale that floated
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'Beauty' Reawakened; Royal Ballet Hopes Its New Production Will Bring Back the Old Magic
The Washington Post
; It must have been a pleasure, on that February evening in 1946, to watch a ballet in postwar London without nervous glances at the little red light that told audiences an air raid was in progress. Not that, during the raids, the hard-core ballet lovers ever left. If the dancers kept dancing, why
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