Time Warp.

The article discusses the challenges faced by choreographer John Cranko in the transition of the novel "Eugene Onegin," by Alexander Pushkin into a ballet. Cranko noted that his main problem is on how to establish the correct period of time that the novel conveyed into his ballet because it covered several years to which the main characters have undergone emotional evolution. His solution was to subdivide the scenes into two critical sequences which covered the time before the birthday party of Tatiana Larina when they met and the moment that Onegin realized his mistake on rejecting Tatiana. He also encountered other challenges on how to establish scenes that properly interpret those in the novel but came up with the solution and was able to choreograph a ballet of aesthetic value.