The Sleeping Beauty Ballet

I watched the Sleeping Beauty ballet classic performance by choreographer Mathew Bourne. This production aired on Great Performances, Friday, April 25, 2014 at 9.p.m. on PBS. I was glad I had the opportunity to watch this classic ballet performance, as it was one of my favorite stories when I was younger. This ballet was very different in terms of technique and choreography and was a very classical piece. I loved the costumes for this ballet and appreciated seeing the amount of detail in each setting. I particularly enjoyed watching the first six dancers that represented the fairies making their way across the stage. Although each dancer was doing similar steps such as arabesques, pique turns and bourrees, they were doing each move at different times, which made it look more complex. I also enjoyed watching the females fairies weave in and out of a line with the two male dancers. They did a pas de shat through the center and bourrees circle around the baby crib and to the back. I loved the way it looked when dancers used straight lines and looked at each other. Towards the middle of the performance the five different groups of dancers held hands and weaved in and out of each other while doing

In act 1, for instance, when princess Aurora’s maids of honor are dancing center stage, the eight violin pages on the sides of the stage are doing gargoudillades. The six fairy godmothers arrived there were passages in which their eight attendants and four of their cavaliers are all dancing at once, like three orchestral groups in harmony. This really made the performance flawless. One thing that they could improve on is to show more emotions. Although the dancers were smiling, there wasn’t too much expression in their faces, and more body language can further accentuate emotions. Besides that the performance was excellent and made the audience understand the story through their