Historical ballets are rife with offensive colonial politics but choreographers and dancers are finding creative ways to change them for today's audiences A 19th-century worldview informs much of the classical ballet repertoire. Historical ballets are rife with national and racial stereotypes, including the orientalism of La Bayadère, Le Corsaire and Scheherazade, the Chinese ("Tea") and Arabian ("Coffee") variation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM on January 9, 2020