how not to mistake a dancer for a fine wine … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2011
The dancer and the dance (on the occasion of Balanchine and kin)
Over Christmas, I deflowered a middle-aged friend of his Nutcracker innocence. A typical European, he'd seen Pina Bausch but no Petipa. Though I suspect he found the whole thing childish, he responded gamely (this was to ABT's new Ratmansky version) except to the pas de deux. These moments of slippery idealized romance made him itch. In fact, he decided BAM was infested with bed … [Read more...]