The Russian choreographer's production at Milan's La Scala brings Petipa's 1890 ballet back to life and requires dancers to go against all their habitsEver since Matthew Bourne cast Swan Lake as a male love story and Mats Ek set Giselle in a lunatic asylum, it's been widely accepted that the way to re-energise the 19th century classics is by reinventing their stories. But during the last two years Alexei Ratmansky ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15AM on September 30, 2015