On Saturday afternoon, Alexandra MacDonald performs one of the most difficult movements in classical ballet – the Rose Adagio. Karen Kain made her own leap to ballet stardom performing the role of Aurora with Nureyev as her prince. (David Donnelly/CBC)That day, when she learned that in a couple of months' time, she would dance Aurora, MacDonald remembers looking down at her hands, surprised to find them shaking. Line and form and musicality and beauty and graciousness, she has everything!” (David Donnelly/CBC)Kain remembers vividly what it's like to reach the wedding solo. In casting MacDonald as Aurora, Kain may also have seen something of her younger self in the 23-year-old MacDonald.

Source: CBC News March 17, 2018 09:56 UTC