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I was walking through a Westchester park when my attention was directed by a local resident to a stretch of turf that was noticeably flatter than what surrounded it.  Seems that the area in question had been fenced off as … Continue reading →

We Flies, having covered ABT’s  Cinderella at the Met last month, now sojourn to the Joyce and catch–and comment upon–Pilobolus.

    That’s how they went to Europe in those days. Jonathan Watts and Tanaquil Le Clercq en route with New York City Ballet and the Boss,  April 1955.

By now, you’ve bought Vol. 3 of VAI’s New York City Ballet in Montreal series. And you’ve taken a gander at the historical exhumation I was talking about.  More than one gander, undoubtedly. . . . VAI’s Allan Altman just … Continue reading →

What with all the empty storefronts. . .

She’s someone you’ll want to know about. She’s just written her first article for Ballet Review, a profile of Kathryn Morgan in the current issue. Kyra’s mother is Helen Kramer, who danced with Ballet Russe and New York City Ballet—a … Continue reading →

Yes, we’d love a woman president, but if she thinks that triangulation redux is going to be be tolerated by a Democratic base that has had six years of maladroit attempts at same by the right-wing Dem who occupies the … Continue reading →

About movement and other topos in the new, Summer 2014 issue of Ballet Review. We’ve published an expanded version of the interview I did with Keenlyside in 2010 for City Arts. In other words, you HAVEN’T read it before. So … Continue reading →

Why the .5 per cent are acting this way? They can’t help it.  They simply need to be treated and disarmed. Lynn Stuart Parramore at alternet explains what money does to the psyche.

Talk about the Establishment’s culture of victimization! Playing the victim is what con men do when caught out, isn’t it? I see it in individuals all the time –and it’s an institutional fall back. Peter Hart of Fairness and Accuracy … Continue reading →