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Magic and Mad Science at the Met: Natalia Osipova & Daniil Simkin in American Ballet Theatre’s Coppélia

Posted on June 23, 2011 by

Coppélia, the 19th-century ballet about an eccentric inventor and the hullabaloo caused by his eerie life-sized dolls, has been called a foil to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein because it shows a sunnier side of mad science. Unlike in Frankenstein, however, nothing … Continue reading →

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