Is "The Sleeping Beauty" harder than "Swan Lake" or "Giselle"?

I don't know. I never did either one. The challenges are very different.

If you can't do the fouettes in "Swan Lake", it's obvious. In terms of characterisation, personally I would have found "Swan Lake" easier than "Beauty", because the characters are much more clearly delineated, whereas in "Beauty" it's a more subtle change from a young girl to a princess. It's not black-and-white.

It's hard to find a good characterisation there. I never did "Giselle", and so I can't honestly comment. Have you got other plans to stage Balanchine ballets for another company?

Not right now. New York City Ballet will start work in October, and we will have a tour to Chicago for a week. So I have to rehearse "The Four Temperaments" and others, and then prepare for our regular season.

We are doing "The Sleeing Beauty" after "The Nutcracker". Inevitably I'll be involved with that. I know that you dance Carabosse.

What other mime roles do you do? I also enjoy doing Madge in "La Sylphide". I did this role ... more.

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