Mathew Bourne's 'Sleeping Beauty'

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. 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 organized. I also enjoyed watching the female’s fairies going in and out of a line with the other two male dancers. They did a pas de shat through the center and bourrees circle around the baby crib and went to the back performing the same steps. 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 went in and out of each other while doing so, this was something simple and it was interesting and

In act 1, for instance, when Aurora’s fairies are dancing center stage, the eight violin dancers are dancing along with them by doing gargoudillades. The six fairy godmothers arrived to the center as well and incorporated into the dance in an organized way. This really made the performance flawless. One thing that they could improve on is to show more of their emotions. Although the dancers were smiling, there wasn’t too much expression in their faces, and more body language can make their emotions look better. Besides that the performance was excellent and made the audience understand the story through their