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Article: CINDERELLA STORY LYON OPERA BALLET'S FAIRY TALE RETURNS.(U)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- May 8, 2002
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Byline: Vicki Smith Paluch Correspondent
SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO, French choreographer Maguy Marin astonished the dance world with the ``Cinderella'' she created for the Lyon Opera Ballet. Her interpretation turned dancers into 19th-century dolls set in a child's imaginative telling of the popular fairy tale.
The production became the ``calling card'' of the Lyon Opera Ballet when it toured Europe and the United States, recalled Yorgos Loukos, the company's artistic director since 1991.
``We stopped performing it for 10 years because it was becoming like a 'Holiday on Ice' show. It was the negative side of our passport to success,'' said Loukos, ...