Whatever crimes ABT may have committed through the years–however many Cinderellas, Ladies of the Camellias, Snow Maidens, Pied Pipers, gimcrack Swan Lakes and Sleeping Beauties–they’ve made up for it this season by giving us another brief taste of the Royal Ballet’s supremely gifted Alina Cojocaru in her greatest role, Giselle. Her one performance of it Read More
Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us. In recent years we’ve watched American Ballet Theatre rising, New York City Ballet falling, the Kirov and the Bolshoi struggling to regain their former glory. But no major company has had a more confusing time than London’s Royal Ballet, which has not Read More
The recent two-week Frederick Ashton celebration at the Met, in honor of his 100th birthday, has been thrilling, moving, illuminating, yet in some ways disappointing. We in America have been on a thin diet of Ashton for many years (even his own company, the Royal Ballet, has been on strict rations). Granted that dancing Ashton Read More
