MODERN CHANGES TO THE WORLD OF BALLET ONSTAGE

by Alastair MACAULAY

Vladimir Putin, in a remarkable June 2019 interview with the “Financial Times”, declared that liberalism had become obsolete. He made clear that he meant many kinds of liberalism. On the one hand he included Angela Merkel’s tolerance of immigrants, while on the other he opposed sexual diversity and multiculturalism.

Amar Ramasar and Sara Mearns in Justin Peck’s Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes © Paul Kolnik

It’s fair to assume that Putin would therefore abhor much about the twentyfirst-century choreography of the West. Two remarkable features have been emerging about the new ballets of this century, especially by the younger choreographers…

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