How Much Of Petipa Has Survived In Petipa’s Ballets?

“This year, like every other, the big ballet spring season brings to America… a series of 19th-century classics almost all attributed chiefly or partly to the choreographer Marius Petipa (1818-1910). The list is short. It varies little. Yet most of these ballets, as staged today, are laden with cliché; and much of what now bears the Petipa brand name has actually been rechoreographed by his successors.”