Maguy Marin/Opera Nat Lyon
Cinderella Ballet:Lyon 1989

Maguy Marin‘s highly original and magical version of the Cinderella story was an unparalleled success through
out its world tour. Anna Kisselgoff of the New York Times said that Marin‘s "vision reaches back into the universals of everyone‘s childhood - the hurts and joys resonate here with touching depth.“
Marin’s choreographic vision is so extraordinarily original and magical that it seems to evoke universally familiar
images and memories of childhood. In her childlike approach to the work, the characters are presented as living
dolls with real human feelings projected upon them in the way children like to identify with their toys. The fairy
tale is set in a dolls’ house, the Fairy Godmother is a robot, Cinderella goes to the ball in a toy car and the Prince
sets off in search of his beautiful but unknown guest astride a rocking horse…