SLEEPING BEAUTY (Coda and Finale)

Just the end of the coda with Ellen Bauer and the 17 yr-old Damian Woetzel, and Finale of John Taras’s staging of SLEEPING BEAUTY ACT III (1984) and the last performances of my Los Angeles Ballet. I really liked John’s staging because it moved so much and he kept the tempo brisk. So often I’ve seen this ballet so slow it loses all its fun and excitement. The venue was the John Anson Ford Amphitheater in Hollywood when we expanded the stage. After our shows the county (it’s owned by LA County), decided to go back to its original small stage set-up. What a pity. This was filmed by Randy Berke for our archives, but at least we have a record of the company. #sleepingbeauty #balletdancer

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I totally agree with you about the tempo. My ballet teacher Madam Darvash used to call Sclepping Beauty!