
Beauty goes Big
To me, and I’m presuming to other ballet lovers who aren’t quite fanatic enough to spend weeks poring over Harvard’s Sergeyev Collection of notations, the conversation around this staging is also wonderfully educational. Did you know that “Sleeping Beauty’s” premiere in 1890 didn’t include a wedding pas de deux variation for the prince, because the dancer, Pavel Gerdt, didn’t have the technique for it? But Boal and Fullington have included the variation for the prince developed later, and what a...