Enchanting Balanchine; Empty Feld; Phony Forsythe
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of George Balanchine’s greatest creations—and one of the greatest of all story ballets. Shakespeare gave us the enchanting play, Mendelssohn gave us the ravishing music, and Balanchine embodied them in movement so lucidly and fluently—so perfectly—that it’s hard to believe this wasn’t a collaboration, rather than the work of Read More
