How better to combine entertainment with instruction than take your child to a theatrical extravaganza that amazes the senses while extolling the virtues of diligence, obedience and kindness of heart? National Ballet of Canada. It is common practice for purveyors of ballets based on literary sources, particularly fairy tales, to take sweeping liberties with their material. The British team that brings us this new Pinocchio is fearless in so doing. No law bars dancers from declaiming, yet generally we expect ballet to tell its tales through movement.

Source: thestar March 12, 2017 17:47 UTC