Looking to the Past to Guard Ballet’s Future: Cecchetti, Petipa and the Stepanov Reconstructions
The Story In the last years of Petipa’s life, 24 of his ballets were notated for posterity by Vladimir Stepanov and Alexander Gorsky. They were taken out of Russia after the Revolution by Nicholas Sergeyev. He spent the rest of his life mounting these ballets for various companies, notably England’s Vic-Wells Ballet. Sergeyev died in 1951 and…