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...camera glides coyly behind a plastic bush and peers out at Nureyev in white lipstick and kilt, nostrils flaring, the effect is more like a parody of Brigadoon than serious, classical ballet. In The Sleeping Beauty, it is grossly unfair to Lynn Seymour that the camera is close enough todistract the audience's attention from her accomplished performance tothe fact that she is not very attractive. A good deal of this segment is also filmed from somewhere above the level of the dancers, an angle from which only Busby Berkeley choreographed his dances to be viewed...

Author: By Sarah M. Wood, | Title: Nureyev on Film | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

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