Artifice & Ambiguity.

The article discusses the new production of "The Sleeping Beauty" for the Royal Ballet, by Natalie Makarova in Great Britain. Its iconic status has been enhanced by perceptions of it as a rescued ballet and its stagings like Rudolf Nursery's London Festival Ballet production followed Vsevolozhky by staging the ballet in settings remiscent of Versailles. It states that in identifying the origins of its vision, an individual must return to France of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century which is away from the manicured symmetries of Versailles. Moreover, The Sleeping Beauty was a conscious attempt to cut the cord binding the Royal Ballet to de Valois.