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Moscow Festival Ballet dances "Sleeping Beauty"

March 20, 2014 12:00 am • Last Updated: March 22, 2014 8:59 am

Dancing a classic: The Moscow Festival Ballet will perform "The Sleeping Beauty" Friday at the Garde Arts Center.

From whence they came: The Moscow Festival Ballet is marking its 25th year. It was founded in 1989 by Sergei Radchenko, who had been a renowned principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet.

On with the show: This "Sleeping Beauty" features Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky music and Marius Petipa choreography. In fact, this was the first of Petipa's classics that were performed in western Europe.

- KRISTINA DORSEY

Moscow Festival Ballet's "The Sleeping Beauty,” 7:30 p.m. Friday, Garde Arts Center, 325 State St., New London; $34-$52; (868) 444-7373, ext. 1, gardearts.org.

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