Peter Martins’ Swan Lake does its job—it gets people into the theater ( all Swan Lakes get people into the theater), and then it gets them out of the theater in only two and a half hours. In other words, it’s efficient, and if efficiency is what you look for in ballet, this is the Read More
Peter Martins’ Swan Lake does its job—it gets people into the theater (all Swan Lakes get people into the theater), and then it gets them out of the theater in only two and a half hours. In other words, it’s efficient, and if efficiency is what you look for in ballet, this is the production Read More
What War and Peace is to the novel and Hamlet is to the theater, Swan Lake is to ballet-that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form. Tchaikovsky’s music, the mystery and high romance of the story, and the opportunity for a ballerina to strut her stuff in Read More
