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BEAUTYFUL VIEWING

The Sleeping Beauty

Bolshoi Ballet [Semizorova, A. Fadeyechev] (1989)
145 min. Grigorovitch version

Kirov Ballet [Kolpakova, Berezhnoi] (1980)
no time available Sergeyev version
Irina Kolpakova is always a wonder; see her, and see Beauty personified.

_________ [Lezhnina, Ruzimatov] (1989)
130 min. Vinogradov version

_________ [Asylmuratova, Zaklinsky] (1990)
no time available; no balletmaster listed

Royal Ballet [Durante, Solymosi] (1994)
132 min. Dowell staging
Weird set; strange costumes; still, the dancing is pretty much the MacMillan-era RB Beauty.

As usual, these are only the complete Sleeping Beauties. Many more excerpts and abridged versions are out there. Robert Greskovic's Ballet 101 has the best generally available videography in print today.