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MATTHEW BOURNE’S SLEEPING BEAUTY

SATURDAY, MARCH 12 @ 6:00PM

Sleeping Beauty is the latest re-imagining of a ballet classic by choreographer Matthew Bourne.

With Sleeping Beauty the British choreographer has returned to the music of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky to complete the trio of the Russian composer’s ballet masterworks. Bourne began in 1992 with Nutcracker! and, most famously, in 1995, with the international hit Swan Lake.

The timeless fairy tale about a young girl cursed to sleep for 100 years was written by Charles Perrault in 1697. Tchaikovsky and choreographer Marius Petipa used the story in 1890 to create what has became a legendary ballet.

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