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Article: Birmingham Royal Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty.(Dance review)
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- Dance Magazine
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- September 1, 2007
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Birmingham Royal Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty Virginia Arts Festival, Norfolk, VA May 4-6, 2007
Sleeping Beauty's magic can be elusive. The Tchaikovsky music and Petipa choreography by now have become so familiar that the ballet's grandeur and mystery have all but disappeared. No 6-year-old fears Carabosse in the age of Harry Potter and Shrek. Without its frisson, the ballet can easily become a collection of pastel-tinted variations. So the Birmingham Royal Ballet's Sleeping Beauty at the Virginia Arts Festival proved a welcome trip back to an earlier time, when the steps and the music cast a spell of their own.
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