Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current visit, the Kirov is offering three programs: an evening of Fokine ballets (Chopiniana, Scheherazade, The Firebird) and two full-length works, Swan Lake and Cinderella. The latter two have been staged by the Kirov's artistic director, Oleg Vinogradov, and it is here that the difficulty lies. In an effort to "modernize" the old fairy tales, to make them less bizarre, he has flattened the stories and made them, if anything, harder to follow...
...goes hunting if his mother has not commanded him to find a suitable bride? In this version she just hands her boy a bow and arrow and trips off, doubtless to a good gossip with her courtiers. Or why make such a fuss about a glass slipper when Cinderella's prince walks into her house and recognizes her without fitting the slipper on her foot...
Vinogradov treats the choreography in a similar way--one could call it departicularizing. These old tales, which are not meant to be realistic anyway, need their familiar, traditional components. The Cinderella production is ruined by streamlining. Near the beginning, there is customarily a charming dance for the heroine partnered by her faithful broom. When the Fairy Godmother appears in a vision, she is usually accompanied by the Four Seasons, who have pretty, technically challenging variations. Here all this is replaced by pointless, dull sequences for the corps de ballet, who cross and recross the stage, smiling vacuously. Actually, Cinderella cannot...
...Simpson murder trial turned briefly, but memorably, into a Cinderella-like spectacle as prosecutors sought a fit for the case's famous bloodied gloves. "They're too small," said Simpson as he struggled, at prosecutor Christopher Darden's behest, to pull the allegedly incriminating gloves over his hands-a turn of events that was widely perceived as a blunder for the prosecution. Darden quickly suggested Simpson was faking his difficulty, then solicited expert testimony that the blood-soaked leather gloves had shrunk...
...tale that seemed more Cinderella than Simpson, FBI shoe print expert William Bodziak described to theO.J. Simpsonjury the extensive worldwide hunt for the shoe that made bloody prints at the murder scene. The design of the shoe, which was never found, was so unusual that it couldn't be located in the databases of the FBI or seven international law enforcement agencies. After sending out over 80 letters to shoe companies and visiting an Italian manufacturer, the feds found their perfect fit -- a size 12 Bruno Magli with a waffle sole that sells for $160 a pair. Simpson himself wears...