The Sleeping Beauty; Rambert Event review " total ballerina focus and stale fruitcake
Royal Opera House; Sadler's Wells, LondonA spectacular Princess Aurora graces a Royal Ballet favourite in dire need of an update, while Merce Cunningham isn't best served by Rambert's latest remix The Royal's Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty goes down as easy as a violet cream-filled fondant. An unreconstructed, full-corps pageant complete with tiny pageboys in satin knickerbockers, the unironic staging obscures the sati…