No, I’m not talking about the pathetic sight of spring-blooming plants being lulled by the torrid December into putting out blossoms, thus pre-empting the actual spring bloom–that’s been written about by Nicholas St. Fleur [some name!] in the Times.
No, I’m talking about the cover of the Winter 2015-16 Ballet Review. Gilliam Murphy, decked out in rosy hues and silk rosettes, is shown as Aurora in American Ballet Theatre’s new Sleeping Beauty.
It’ s a welcome sight–sort of like a conservatory giving us bloom out of season to augment a healthy ecosystem that produces the al fresco kind of flower on nature’s own schedule.
The winter conservatory gives us its own, humanly-massaged kind of blossom–as does the balletic hothouse. Both distill, enhance, interpret the many properties of the real thing.