How Russian ballerinas taught Europe to dance
In the first half of the 20th century the words “ballet” and “Russian” were nearly synonymous. Thanks to the international success
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In the first half of the 20th century the words “ballet” and “Russian” were nearly synonymous. Thanks to the international success
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'My prejudices are against pretension, messages, the week’s good cause, flat feet, unstretched bodies, and dancers with no necks'
To the international world of ballet, Clement Crisp was the British critic to fear for half a century. Crisp's dance reviews for the Financial Times - "the pink 'un" - from 1970 until 2020 were legendary for their passionate fastidiousness about ballerinas and high style, their acuity about rising talents and the difficulties of creativity, and - often - their ferocity, when he saw something he thought a blight.
Beginning at the Bolshoi Ballet, she went on to be wildly popular in London but was kept in Margot Fonteyn’s shadow by Ninette de Valois