ABT To Premiere New “Sleeping Beauty”
Alexei Ratmansky‘s lavish new production of “The Sleeping Beauty” for American Ballet Theater will be unveiled Tuesday in Costa Mesa, California. This production is not an occasion for the choreographer to express his bold originality as is the case with his “Nutcracker.” Rather, his approach to “Sleeping Beauty” is to re-create as closely as possible the 1890 choreography by Marius Petipa, notation for which has survived. Diana Vishneva and Thomas Forster (pictured) will dance the premiere.
