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purchase Valentin Baranovsky’s new Divertissement, and you’ll really want to after seeing it previewed in the just-published Winter 2017-18 Ballet Review.

I asked Laura Jacobs if she still remembered those Leaves Are Fadings she’d seen in Boston. She saw Kirkland dance it twice in that run–“I was speechless,” she said. However, she wrote about it for the Boston Phoenix so eloquently that … Continue reading →

Ryan Grimm at the Intercept talks about how they plan to get away with it.

He is pillaging the American economy. Will Rice at Americans For Tax Fairness pulls back the curtain on Apple’s latest-breaking dodge: “Apple’s plain purpose is to curry favor with the Trump administration by creating the mirage of positive economic news … Continue reading →

I don’t know, the contrast between Benedetta who at forty-five when I met her looked stunning in the most humble of tops and bottoms, and the glitz overload of the Trump clan got to me. Someone complimented my sweater yesterday … Continue reading →

Read Sophie Bew’s profile at AnOtherMag of the “The Boldly Heroic Benedetta Barzini: Marxist, Model and Muse.” I want to make my first E-short my account of the days I spent talking to her in Milan in 1988.

Clio Chang at Splinter writes: “The new spending deal that Paul Ryan has put on the table to avert a looming government shutdown is a disgrace. In exchange for a stopgap measure that would fund the government for a month—something that comes … Continue reading →

The Leaves Are Fading “is the world’s most boring ballet if you don’t do it the right way,” Tudor’s assistant Airi Hynninen told me, “if you do it the easy way.” Kirkland did it the hard way–the real way, taking, … Continue reading →

Uh, like, isn’t that treason? At Vox.com, Matthew Yglesias recoils from “Donald Trump’s terrifying plan to win the 2018 midterms. . . If Trump thinks a terrorist attack would serve his political interests — either through a blind rally ‘round the … Continue reading →

Gelsey Kirkland in Tudor’s The Leaves Are Fading was more than good, more than good enough–she was, as Tudor himself said, “stupendous.” She brought a mesmerizing profundity to her final performances of the ballet in 1983-84. It wasn’t until December 1983 … Continue reading →