Coliseum, LondonThe junior soloist dances like an international star in this luminous, outrageous, orientalist rompIn Le Corsaire, ballet often veers closer to music hall than art. Its pirates-and-slave-girls plot is hokum; its patchwork score is serviceable at best, and Petipa's choreography rarely reaches the heights of his Swan Lake or Bayadère. Aside from historical interest, the main point of staging the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AM on January 15, 2016