`Sleeping Beauty` - Why Is Such A Socially Retrograde A Ballet So Perennially Popular? Here`s Why
(ArtsJournal Dance)

`Isn`t this the most royalist of all ballets? King Florestan XXIV and his queen have a daughter, you see, and the story hinges on her finding Prince Right. Dynastic succession is the name of the game. ... So why is this classic danced so regularly and well across America? Is royalism merely its surface?` The […]