"Class conflicts — this time in a Turkish ghetto
*One family's struggles are played out in Istanbul National Ballet's problematic 'East Side Story.'
By Lewis Segal, Times Staff Writer
If Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein had followed their original plans for a Broadway musical about class conflicts on the streets of New York, its title would have been "East Side Story." However they moved in the opposite direction, so that title belongs to the problematic full-evening dance drama by choreographer Aysun Aslan and composer Fahir Atakoglu that the Istanbul National Ballet offered in the second of two performances Friday at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre."
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