“The last ballet production that saw the stage of the Roudaki Hall Opera
terminating a great era of artistic productivity for Iranian classical and
contemporary ballet, was Sleeping Beauty , staged in October 1978.
And thus, the beauty of Iranian culture and performing arts, the
Iranian National Ballet, fell into a deep and anxious sleep in Tehran to
wake up twenty-three years later in exile, reincarnated in
Les Ballets Persans ….”