Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov dance Jerome Robbins’ Other Dances, set to the music of Chopin. The pianist is Jerry Zimmerman. The performance was originally telecast on PBS in 1980:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)
“It always seems to me amazing that we had such flawless poets among us in our youth. But for that very reason I also keep wondering, with a kind of secret anxiety: can such artists sworn entirely to the art of poetry exist in our own times, in our new way of life, which chases people out of their own peace of mind like animals running from a forest fire?”
Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday (trans. Anthea Bell)