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In Tallulah’s autobiography, she talks about returning with friends from a Diaghilev performance in London—“Caught up in the graces of that artistic riddle we felt we should celebrate.” Well, Laura had to get up early the next morning, so we … Continue reading →

by Martha Swope of Balanchine with Mimi Paul before a New York City Ballet Symphony in C,  from the digital collection of the Library for the Performing Arts.

Alex Ross cheers on John Oliver’s brilliant excoriation of the state of journalism in this country, and Alex focuses on the devastating downgrading (as in elimination) of arts criticism.

Laura Jacobs and I went to the Sarasota Ballet’s all-Ashton program at the Joyce last night–and we loved it. We’ll rap some about it later. The company’s there through the weekend.

Patricia Wilde may have done it all, but has she ever been an inductee before? The National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs is taking care of that this weekend, when she’s inducted into their Hall of Fame.

If we cannot curb our government’s bomb -first- think -later-then-bomb-some more-when-the-initial–bombing-blows-back-at-us foreign-policy. Dr. Strangelove is us: the movie can no longer be interpreted as parody but as prophecy. We are now adding (what’s left of) Libya to our bomb card, … Continue reading →

Btw, while there’s probably no way that Sheryl Sandberg could be a worse Treasury Secretary than Timothy Geithner, has anyone in Hillary’s camp actually looked at Sandberg’s CV? Do they realize that she’s a disciple of ex-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, … Continue reading →

Over the last twenty years we’ve seen the neoliberal elite re-brand words like “creativity” to mean anything but artistic endeavor and in fact to be applied almost solely to refer to business acumen. And that alleged acumen is portrayed as … Continue reading →

I’d seen the 1951 La Valse tape in 2012 and thought, Oh, there are things in there that we no longer see on stage, but I liked NYCB in La Valse in 2014. Nevertheless I totally agreed with Macauley. Original … Continue reading →

If Renata Tebaldi could study a score, these young dancer squirts can. And should. And did? BOTTOM LINE: I liked Sterling Hyltin’s performance in New York City Ballet’s La Valse, transmitted live during their Paris season earlier this month. FULL … Continue reading →