Trash and Treasure, Part II
It is possible, in a single week, to see both the sublime and the ridiculous in almost anything. Exhibit #1: …
Tag Archives: New York City Ballet
A Political Lesson in the Prodigal Son
A revisit to New York City Ballet recently set me thinking about families, and forgiveness, and welcome. One of Balanchine’s …
Purposeful Enchantment
In a documentary about the late English ballerina Margot Fonteyn, her one-time partner Robert Helpmann said that she had a …
The Mobius of Love
The figures of Romeo and Juliet are so iconic in western culture, and the notion of Shakespeare’s “star-cross’d” lovers so …
Soul Whisperers
Abstract. Decorative. Illustrative. Evocative. Narrative. Story. Full-length. 19th Century. 20th Century. Modern. Traditional. There are a number of words that …
Poets' Sinews 