A French dance critic's infatuation with a Indian temple dancer has led Shobana Jeyasingh, who trained in classical bharathanatyam, to create a new version of Marius Petipa's ballet of adoration and abandonment The choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh is struggling to find the right word for how she felt when she encountered the ballet La Bayadère, back in the 1990s. "I was excited to see it," she recalls when we m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:51AM on March 24, 2015