• La Bayadère review – Marianela Núñez dances with heart-rending beauty

    Royal Opera House, London
    The loose plotting of the love story is offset by performers who elevate the melodrama to mesmerising levelsLet’s take a moment to appreciate the genius of Marianela Núñez. Even when all around her are dancing on the surface, the Argentinian ballerina can turn up and make you want to weep. In her first entrance as Nikiya, the temple dancer in La Bayadère, all she does is walk, slowly and deliberately, a veil over her face. Yet in those few sho
  • 'It's like a cult': how sexual misconduct permeates the world of ballet

    The #MeToo movement has slowly started to have an effect on the men who’ve abused their position with ballet dancers but there’s still a long way to goWhen Alexandra Waterbury was a student at the School of American Ballet, she caught Chase Finlay staring at her in the studio.“At the time, I was flattered. I was an 18-year-old girl, and he was this star that I grew up watching since I was 11” Waterbury said. Related: New York City Ballet fires two dancers for 'sharing nud
  • Liberals Scorned Me for Liking the Ballet - The Wall Street Journal

    Liberals Scorned Me for Liking the Ballet  The Wall Street JournalOn a swipe-based dating app, I recently found myself reading an awful lot of comments about a shirt of mine. I am a massive fan of the ballet. I go to the ballet ...

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