Robert Garis News Today

Through several phases of the culture wars, ballet has served as a canary in the coal mine, its intense and exposed physicality highlighting all the issues surrounding sexuality, gender and power that have currently become our unhealthily narcissistic preoccupation. Perhaps the warnings started with the phenomenon of Vaslav Nijinsky. Against the defined masculinity and femininity

Jennifer Homans’s excellent biography Mr B increases one’s awe at Balanchine's talent even as it exposes the dark corners of his psyche