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Article: Page brings Sleeping Beauty alive

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Evening News - Scotland
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January 4, 2008
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HIS takes on well-worn favourites The Nutcracker and Cinderella were a breath of fresh air and the final in a trilogy of ballets with a fairytale theme that Ashley Page has introduced to Scottish Ballet looks like another hit in the company's repertoire.

Tackling a third Tchaikovsky ballet in The Sleeping Beauty, the award-winning artistic director gives audiences another helping of storytelling with a twist. And this is the most visually ravishing yet, with costumes that are superb and fantastically talented dancers.

Teaming up again with much-lauded London-based costume designer Antony McDonald - who has made 200 costumes for the production - Page has created an epic that is set in two ...

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