Sleeping Beauty 1/3 - Aurora Act 1 entrance - Fonteyn, Sizova, Gregory, Semizorova, Dupont, Vishneva

Act 1 Aurora entrance and Rose Adagio solo bits. Five dancers (Brit, American, French and Russians) from five major ballet companies doing the ’classics’, one per decade. A brief insight into the aesthetics of bygone days and artistry of ballerinas (well, only some of them are ballerinas IMO, and Vishneva is still dancing, but let’s not split hairs...) As a consequence of the ’one per company and one per decade’ restriction I had to leave out Irina Kolpakova :( but I’m going to do a separate montage only with Kirov dancers. The last footage -2015 ABT- is the notated version (the ’reference’ choreo, at least for the lower body). 1955 Margot Fonteyn (RB) [the BW footage is from the 1955 broadcast, the color footage from the ’Magic of Dance’] 1964 Alla Sizova (Kirov) [ production] 1979 Cynthia Gregory (ABT) [ production Russian i