English National Ballet: Le Corsaire review " Cesar Corrales ignites the fun
Coliseum, LondonThe junior soloist dances like an international star in this luminous, outrageous, orientalist rompIn Le Corsaire, ballet often veers closer to music hall than art. Its pirates-and-slave-girls plot is hokum; its patchwork score is serviceable at best, and Petipa's choreography rarely reaches the heights of his Swan Lake or Bayadère. Aside from historical interest, the main point of staging the …