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Article: ARTS: No slave to tradition What can a dazzling former star of the Kirov bring to the Royal Ballet's Sleeping Beauty? Natalia Makarova tells NADINE MEISNER how she plans to rouse this dormant production
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 17, 2003
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The Royal Opera House's new home gleams with such technological
luxuriousness, it's probably a living organism, hiding a powerful
mind ready to pounce on unsuspecting, vulnerable individuals. Take
what happened to Natalia - Natasha - Makarova the other evening. She
found herself locked in her dressing room because she failed to press
a release button on the wall. Poor, fragile Natasha, trapped in the
jaws of some evil labyrinth the size of a town, to be found only 100
years later: she might have become a real-life version of the drama
that she is currently mounting on the ROH stage.
It's an overwhelming task, she says; and although I'm not hugely
enamoured of her Bayadere (already in the ...