Crossing the border

From: The Spectator | Date: June 12, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Dance

Scottish Ballet (Sadler's Wells)

Crossing the border

Giannandrea Poesio

The success and the popularity of companies such as Scottish Ballet depend greatly on a tailor-made repertoire that exploits the skills and talents of the dancers. It is the well thought out combination of suitable modern pieces and equally suitable stagings of the more traditional works that has provided the Scottish Ballet dancers with that artistic variety and infectious performing drive most dance-goers, myself included, have long praised. It is mainly thanks to these qualities that both the company's new ...

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