If you have a sweet tooth when it comes to ballet then Javier Torres’s Sleeping Beauty should satisfy, says Kim Balfour. But if you’re looking for reinvention rather than convention, you won’t find it here.
![Juan Carlos Osma as Prince Desiré and Alexa Tuzil as Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty. Photo by Bradbury Photography copy A female ballerina in an elaborate tutu is held by a male ballet dancer. He clasps her around her waist and her legs are both airborne, one bents and one extended vertically.Her torso angles downwards, so that her shape is a graceful arc. Too many soft centres in chocolate box ballet](https://www.seesawmag.com.au/wp-content/uploads/fly-images/37666/Juan-Carlos-Osma-as-Prince-Desiré-and-Alexa-Tuzil-as-Princess-Aurora-in-The-Sleeping-Beauty.-Photo-by-Bradbury-Photography-copy-410x273-c.jpg)
Western Australia’s arts playground
Western Australia’s arts playground
22 November 2021
If you have a sweet tooth when it comes to ballet then Javier Torres’s Sleeping Beauty should satisfy, says Kim Balfour. But if you’re looking for reinvention rather than convention, you won’t find it here.