Looking At Sleeping Beauty‘s Most Terrifying Sequence

“Watching [Alina] Cojocaru, with her steely grace and perfect phrasing (note, for example, the way she drifts that pirouette at 0:30 across the music, or the flawless arabesque sequence from 1:45) you might not guess that the Rose Adagio is one of the great challenges for ballerinas. But it’s a killer.”