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Robert Tanitch reviews Scheherazade on line

Robert Tanitch reviews Scheherazade on line

The sultan’s favourite wife is caught in flagrante delicto with a Negro slave. Orientalism was in vogue and sex and violence have always been popular, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes had a huge success wit ...
Three one-act ballets by Birmingham Royal Ballet

Three one-act ballets by Birmingham Royal Ballet

Robert Tanitch reviews Birmingham Royal Ballet’s triple bill at Sadler’s Wells, London EC1 Birmingham Royal Ballet’s enjoyable triple bill includes works by Ruth Brill, Michael Corder and David Bintle ...