Resurrection of a Historic Ballet

From: The Washington Post | Date: April 19, 1996| Author: Sarah Kaufman | Copyright information

BY SHEER LUCK, what time, forgetfulness and even fire couldn't destroy has been reborn.

Dance reconstruction is a slow, lengthy, frustrating process, involving painstaking scholarship, the tracking down of aging cast members of long-ago productions and hoping their memories can be trusted, and the examination of choreographic notes and musical scores, if they exist. But when Amanda Thom Woodson, associate professor of dance at Baltimore's Goucher College, decided to reconstruct B...

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