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Monday, March 21

March 21, 2011 by Apollinaire Scherr Leave a Comment

how not to mistake a dancer for a fine wine  … [Read more...]

The dancer and the dance (on the occasion of Balanchine and kin)

March 19, 2011 by Apollinaire Scherr Leave a Comment

  Over Christmas, I deflowered a middle-aged friend of his Nutcracker innocence. A typical European, he'd seen Pina Bausch but no Petipa. Though I suspect he found the whole thing childish, he responded gamely (this was to ABT's new Ratmansky version) except to the pas de deux. These moments of slippery idealized romance made him itch. In fact, he decided BAM was infested with bed … [Read more...]

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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