Dance Review: 'The Sleeping Beauty' by The Washington Ballet at The Kennedy Center
The original St. Petersburg production of Marius Petipa's "The Sleeping Beauty" was the Disney show of its time, complete with moving set pieces, gloriously painted backdrops, half a thousand costumes. Premiering in 1890 at the storied Maryinsky Theater, the ballet came to symbolize the opulence of the era before the revolution. In the first years […]