Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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And ornament Vietnam's spring with everlasting beauty.
But if the splendid spectacle of Sleeping Beauty is the well-wrought setting, the dancing must sustain the mood of enchantment. In Sleeping Beauty this is an unusually tricky business, because little of the ensemble choreography is inherently interesting. The delight of such an old-fashioned approach as Sleeping Beauty...
Bauer's role in Sleeping Beauty includes one of the most infernally difficult sequences in the classical repertoire, the so-called Rose Adagio. It is a moment of psychological depth that is rare in 19th-century ballet. The princess stands poised on her 16th birthday between childhood and adulthood, between...
LUCKILY, Sleeping Beauty depends far more on the heroine than on her prince, and in the Boston production Elaine Bauer and glowing theatrical spectacle managed to tip the balance between ho-hum and lovely, creating a delightful evening from what might have been an embarrassing antique.
Still, the performance remained surprisingly transparent. It showed the Company's individuality only in their weaknesses: the choreographic banality, the ragged ensemble work, the inconsistent quality of the soloists. Beyond that, this charming and classically faithful Sleeping Beauty could have been anyone's Sleeping Beauty. The only positive statement it...