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
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
Why is the one thing we remember about Pinocchio that his nose grows longer whenever he tells a lie? The telltale nose plays a very minor role in the wonderful Disney version of 1940, which is probably how most Americans know Pinocchio, and it isn’t even crucial in Carlo Collodi’s original children’s tale, first translated Read More
