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Apollinaire Scherr talks about dance

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June 17, 2008 by Apollinaire Scherr Leave a Comment

I try not to resort too often to the common blog tactic of letting other writers do the work, but I won’t be able to get anything up until next week and my colleague Joel Lobenthal, of the New York Sun, has written a wonderful tribute to the exceptional Wendy Whelan, of New York City Ballet. So I can’t resist. Enjoy! 

whelansotopolyphonia.jpgWhelan and retired principal dancer Jock Soto in Christopher Wheeldon’s “Polyphonia.” Photo by Paul Kolnik for New York City Ballet.

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Apollinaire Scherr

is the New York-based dance critic for the Financial Times. She has written regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Newsday, as well as SF Weekly and the East Bay Express, in the Bay Area. She has contributed to... Read More…

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