“Dance should speak in vivid images with strength and at the same time with beauty.”

                – E. Virginia Williams, Founder

 

  • Sleeping Beauty

    07 April 1976

    Boston Ballet presented its first full-length production of The Sleeping Beauty, with choreography after Marius Petipa, staged by E. Virginia Williams and Lorenzo Monreal. For the next five years the ballet would present the piece in spring as an "Easter Nutcracker".

     

    Laura Young and Boston Ballet in The Sleeping Beauty, circa 1979
    Photograph by A. Epstein
    Courtesy of Laura Young