Alexei Ratmansky is aiming to make his new production of the classic ballet as close to Marius Petipa's 1890 original as he can " and the dancers are rising to the physical challengeIt's midday in New York, and the traffic on Broadway is pitched to a honking, blaring, strident roar. But inside the rehearsal studios of American Ballet Theatre, fairies dance and courtiers amuse themselves in a gentle game of blind-man'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AM on March 3, 2015