By Elaine Gaertner Vaslav Nijinsky wrote in his diary, “Applause is not opinion. Applause is a feeling of love for the artist.” The following four artists — Muriel Valtat, Andrea Boardman, Gaby Baars, and José Manuel Carreño — have felt this love, a palpable embrace from audiences around the world. Today they have abandoned the
By Elaine Gaertner For a piano accompanist, playing for a dance class over the internet poses a whole new set of variables and challenges. In a virtual class, with dancers in their own spaces, potentially around the globe, technical restrictions mean they hear the music a fraction of a second or more after it leaves