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Article: CLASSICAL DANCE LIVES HAPPILY EVER AFTER IN `SLEEPING BEAUTY'.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 26, 2001
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When Pacific Northwest Ballet describes its first "Sleeping Beauty" as the major production of the season, it is not exaggerating. The ballet, which opens Thursday night at the Opera House, is big business for any company.
It is not just the scope of the ballet - the number of dancers and the scale of the spectacle - but the place it has in dance history.
Premiered at the Maryinsky Theater in St. Petersburg in 1890, Marius Petipa's great ballet came at a time of enormous evolution of ballet technique, said Ronald Hynd, former principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, who oversaw the setting of the ballet on PNB.
"The ballet brought together all ...