Dancing the Fairy TaleIn Dancing the Fairy Tale, Laura Katz Rizzo claims that The Sleeping Beauty is both a metaphor for ballet itself, and a powerful case study for examining ballet and its production and performance. Using Marius Petipa and Pyotr Tchaikovsky's classical dance specifically as it was staged in Philadelphia over nearly 70 years Katz Rizzo looks at the gendered nature of women staging, coaching, and reanimating this magnificent ballet, and well as the