Tag: Fabrice Calmels
‘La Bayadère:’ the greatest ballet you’ve never seen
CHICAGO — La Bayadère premiered in St. Petersburg in 1877, and is lumped together in that one question about naming all the classical ballets on every college dance history exam. Bayadère was a pioneer in the ballet world at that time — one of the first of many to include a “white act” — but we didn’t see it in…