TEMPUS DOES KIND OF FUGIT

Got that full circle feeling last Saturday night.
There I was at ABT for Sleeping Beauty, Alexei Ratmansky’s production based on the Stepanov notations made at the Mariinsky in 1903.
Diana Vishneva was Aurora and Veronika Part was Lilac Fairy.
Sixteen years and one month or so earlier —
there I’d been at the Mariinsky itself, watching the world premiere of Sergei Vikharev’s Sleeping Beauty, based on the Stepanov notations. Starring in the performance had been–you guessed it–Diana Vishneva as Aurora and Veronika Part as the Lilac Fairy.
Has time stopped, I asked myself. No, on the contrary, but indeed history had repeated itself. And I’d gone along for the ride.

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