This fall, NYCB’s bill of newly commissioned works was something of a gamble. Save for Justin Peck, the choreographers were... Read More
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Madison Mainwaring is a graduate student at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her research focuses on the Romantic ballet and the way its danseuses were perceived by female audience members at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Her writing and criticism has been featured by The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Paris Review, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, and VICE Magazine, among other publications.
Is there such a thing as “Englishness?” What would be at the heart of such a quality—habits and customs, the... Read More
There’s something about the formalisms of the ballet world that gives one an almost racy feeling when its backstage doors... Read More
In mid-July the grove on Amsterdam Avenue in front of the David H. Koch Theater was littered with cigarette butts.... Read More
When the American is in Paris he undergoes an education. Sure he arrives in ill-fitting clothes, pronouncing “coin” as if... Read More
Paul Taylor’s “Death and the Damsel,” one of two premieres during his season at Lincoln Center has been labeled by... Read More
