Six artistic directors were asked which ballets are due a rest, which we should rescue and which are classics of the futureEveryone acknowledges that ballet is stuck with an intractable shortage of 19th-century classics. Most early works were lost to the stage before modern methods of notation and recording revolutionised the art form, hence the predictable reliance among most of today's companies on works such as Sw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:29AM on February 5, 2014