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Bolshoi BalletAugust 2004 London, Covent Garden © Jeffery Taylor Former dancer, Critic and an Arts feature writer for the |
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The following short houghts were originally published together with a review of Singin' in the Rain but are presented separately here...
And what a camp piece of nonsense it is, too. Judging by the hundreds of lavish costumes and colossal sets, also one of the most expensive, sending up the foundation fathers of the world’s current classical technique, the Imperial Russian Ballet. Luckily it was one of the best danced with Svetlana Zakharova as the eponymous heroine and Sergei Filin her mummified lover.
 © I Zaharkin My best bit was the castanet playing Spanish Princess leading the underwater celebrations discovered on the bed of the River Nile. It was that sort of evening. |
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