The Royal Ballet Portraits
One of our favorite topics, along with ballet myth busting, is ballet’s potential for crossover with other art forms. Besides its affinity with drama…
Steven McRae
Dancing Cheek to Cheek: the Outtakes
A long time ago (well… a few years back) in a galaxy not-so-far away Royal Ballet Principal Roberta Marquez suddenly found herself without a…
King of the Rodeo
One of our favorite things in The Royal Ballet season is the opportunity to catch their “New Works†by emerging choreographers (usually in-House talent) in…
Houses of the Holy
In an interesting piece for The new Criterion novelist Laura James recently debated the watering-down of meaning and depth in modern ballet, arguing that:…