20 - 23 December 2007 | Stadsschouwburg, Antwerp
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Aki Saïto | Photogr. Feriet Tunc
Altea Nuñez & Alain Honorez | Photogr.: Johan Persson
In June 2006 Kathryn Bennetts closed her first season at the Royal Ballet of Flanders with a sumptuous fairytale ballet, Marcia Haydée’s version of Sleeping Beauty.
Sleeping Beauty is a fine example of the unique complexity of classical ballet at the end of the 19th century. Virtuoso academic dance is combined with the exquisite portrayal of character. Marcia Haydée’s production (1987) offers everything one expects from a great classical ballet: spectacular dance scenes and ravishing settings and costumes, designed by the renowned Chilean designer Pablo Nuñez.
At the Stuttgarter Ballett Marcia Haydée added her own accent to Petipa’s choreography:
“For me Sleeping Beauty is fairy tale that is all about us, human beings. Sleeping Beauty is the tragedy of Carabosse and the Lilac Fairy, of good and evil. Carabosse and the Lilac Fairy are the negative and positive powers in our contemporary world. I think deep inside us we may find something of both of them. We are both the Lilac Fairy and Carabosse. What we actually become merely depends on the situation we find ourselves in. No one is born evil. People become ‘evil’ only because of circumstances.”
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