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Making the leap: should the classics of dance be reinvented? by Judith Mackrell

As London Coliseum plays host to a Swan Lake complete with electronic beats and a hip-hop court, where is the line between tasteful and tacky modernisation?I wasn't the only one to wince over aspects of the Yuri Grigorovich Swan Lake, with which the Bolshoi opened their UK season last week. Under the guise of distilling the ballet to a near-abstract dialogue between reality and illusion, the veteran Bolshoi choreogra…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AM on August 7, 2013

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