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Article: The arts: A Maiden with a glorious past First performed in London 40 years ago, The Snow Maiden was deeply influenced by the Ballet Russe. It's a style John Percival is glad to find still in the Stanislavsky Ballet's current production
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 4, 2002
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How odd it is that while audiences at the Festival Hall took
easily to the Stanislavsky Ballet's The Snow Maiden on its own
merits, some London reviewers have been coming up with some
extraordinary comparisons to describe it. True, the first night had
some problems of stage management hindering judgement, but I really
can't see how they would make anyone think that the ballet had much
to do with 19th-century classics on the one hand or socialist realism
on the other.
The trouble is that a vital bit of dance history seems to have
been forgotten. Once upon a time, we all knew about the Ballet Russe.
For half of the last century, while English and American ballet
companies were trying to ...