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It's amazing what goes into making something effortless.
"No performance is a perfect performance but some performances allow for the feeling of perfection. Achieving this moment of ecstasy easily validates all the pain and struggle of the art form by taking us, and possibly our audience, for a moment to a world beyond our own."
White Cat and Puss in Boots (Venus Villa, Juan Rodriguez)
English National Ballet’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’
Photo: Dave Morgan
The Full Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
The Royal Ballet (1978)
Princess Aurora ………… Merle Park
Prince Désiré ……………. David Wall
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In this gorgeous video, former Principal Artist Lisa Bolte remembers being chosen to dance the lead in The Sleeping Beauty at the age of 21.
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Marianela Nunez and Thiago Soares in Sleeping Beauty (Act II)
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The Full Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
Kirov Ballet 1989
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Marianela Nunez and Thiago Soares in Sleeping Beauty
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The Full Ballet: Sleeping Beauty
The Royal Ballet (1978)
Princess Aurora: Merle Park
Prince Désiré: David Wall
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Fairy of the Songbird variation from Sleeping Beauty perfomed by:
1. Bolshoi Ballet 1989 Olesya Shulizhitskaya
2. Kirov/Mariinsky 1990s Natalia Pavlova
3. Royal Ballet 2006 Natasha Oughtred
4. Mariinsky Ballet 2006 (from the reconstruction, Mariinsky Festival) Yana Selina
Who is your favorite?
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Aurora and her mother after she is pricked by a spindle
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