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Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty / De Ligniere, Gouda, Cullberg Ballet (Mats Ek) |
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Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty is here transformed by the masterful contemporary choreographer Mats Ek into an allegory of repression, love, and emotional maturity set in a bleak, stylized, postmodern limbo that is both chilling and, just occasionally, bleakly humorous. Traditionalists may be flinching already, but this ballet has always lent itself to this kind of treatment. Indeed, what many will think of as the "traditional" interpretation is in fact Serge Diaghilev's forward-looking production of 1921, which had sets and costumes by Bakst and re-instrumentation by Stravinsky. Ek's Princess inhabits a world seemingly by Mervyn Peake out of Fritz Lang, where Carabosse is a drug-dealing low-life and the Fairies are a gaggle of sneering girlies. Ek removes his work from the classical tradition to a large degree, but what goes in its place is a highly disciplined yet tactile and gut-wrenchingly emotive approach, conveying both the external and internal narratives of the work with unfailing conviction. --Roger Thomas
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