For an Indian woman to make a dancework about La Bayadère is a promising prospect. This classical ballet of 1877 by Russia’s French-born genius Marius Petipa tells the simple story of an Indian temple dancer — essentially a religious sex slave — whose potential salvation by an amorous young soldier is dashed when he expediently marries the rajah’s daughter.
Ismene Brown
Crossing cultures
But Ismene Brown is still mightily impressed by Scottish Ballet’s Streetcar Named Desire
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