In 1890, at the age of 23, Italian ballerina, Carlotta Brianza originated the role of Aurora in Petipa's Sleeping Beauty. Thirty-one...

(left) Judith Fugate as Aurora in the Rose Adagio. Photo by Martha Swope, 1991. (right) Judith Fugate and Philip Neal. Photo by Martha...

In 1988 (3 years prior to NYCB's full production), Merrill Ashley and Lindsay Fischer appeared in the grand pas de deux from Sleeping...

"Ms. Kistler found everything she needed to know about Aurora's sweet persona in Tschaikovsky's radiant score. 'You hear every feeling,...