by Maggie Foyer The Menil Collection in Houston was, in some ways, an unlikely setting for the premiere of Carolyn Carlson’s Black Over Red (My Dialogue with Rothko), but it also made perfect sense. Just a stone’s throw away is the Rothko Chapel where 14 of the painter’s later works hang, monumental in size, painted in
by Jennifer Fournier For classical ballet, an art form born in the court of the aristocracy, rank is foundational. Hierarchy is embedded in the canonical works, populated as they are by peasants and gypsies, and dukes and princesses, and in the companies themselves where the principal dancers quite literally reign, onstage and off. But while