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Ballet
October 16, 2023
Magazine
Alice Robb
Alexei Ratmansky, Ukraine, and the Future of Ballet
The leading choreographer kept art and politics remarkably separate until the invasion of his home country.
April 19, 2023
Madison Mainwaring
The Struggle to Save Ballet From Itself
A former dancer reckons with the rigors and ordeals of life in ballet.
January 2, 2018
Rachel Stone
“The tradition of balletic patriarchy has held a closet full of skeletons.”
November 28, 2017
Megan Pugh
The Delightful, Rebellious Rise of The Ballets Trockadero
A new film documents the history of the world's leading all-male dance troupe across four decades.
November 6, 2017
Jo Livingstone
A Literary Ode to Ballet and Cassavetes
John Haskell’s "The Complete Ballet: A Fictional Essay in Five Acts" breaks new ground in the practice of adaptation.
October 14, 2016
Madison Mainwaring
The Bolshoi’s Swans of Steel
Surviving revolution after revolution, the ballet company has long served as a mirror for Russia's obfuscating statecraft.
January 18, 2014
Juliet Bellow
Balanchine's Mystery Woman
The dancer who might have set the course for 20th-century ballet
October 14, 2013
Alice Robb
Ballet Is in Crisis Because It's Turning Into a Sport
October 5, 2013
Jennifer Homans
The Crisis in Contemporary Ballet
How emotion left dance
February 18, 2002
Jennifer Homans
Steps, Steps, Steps
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