Sadler’s Wells,London
Bourne’s imagination thrives where others fail and his reinventions – a puppet Aurora, battling suitors and homages to Petipa – transform fairytale into dramaBaby Aurora may be key to the anecdote of Sleeping Beauty, or but in most ballet productions she’s present only as an unconvincing afterthought a bland prop of a doll who’s either ignored by the court around her or dandled carelessly in the arms of dancers who’ve never been instructed how to hold a baby. But Matthew Bourne’s imagination thrives where others’ fail and typically one of the stars of his version of Beauty is little Aurora – not a doll,but a captivatingly realistic puppet, who crawls precociously around the palace and beats enthusiastic time to the fairies who dance around her crib.
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Source: theguardian.com