• Making Noise at the Ballet - The New Yorker

    The New Yorker
    Making Noise at the Ballet
    The New Yorker
    One of the primary rules for ballet dancers is “don't make noise with your feet.” It's a central illusion in an art form built upon multiple illusions. Look, this is easy! (Not.) This doesn't hurt at all! (It does.) These human beings we're lifting don ...and more »
  • Swan Lake review – the Royal Ballet's spellbinder leaves you weeping

    Royal Opera House, London
    There are superlative performances – and the world’s most glamorous black tutu – in Liam Scarlett’s new take on the classicFundamentally, what I want from a production of Swan Lake is that it makes me weep for Siegfried and Odette – those two lost souls who perilously trust love to unlock them from isolation and despair. But I also need a production to convince me it has a reason for being on stage. Swan Lake is perhaps the greatest of all

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