By Ashley Killar When Australian Ballet revived John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet at the end of last year, it looked fresh as paint, though it was 20 years since they had last danced the ballet. I saw the December 1 performance in Sydney — and the next morning realized that December 2 was the 60th
By Gary Smith For Agnes Su, the 26-year-old Stuttgart Ballet principal, old hesitancies are finally gone. The sure knowledge she belongs where she stands has unleashed a remarkable stage presence that is captivating audiences and critics alike. “I didn’t really think of myself as a principal dancer until now,” Su says, sitting at trendy Plenum,
By Gary Smith With his 1978 Mayerling, English choreographer Kenneth MacMillan went to some very dark places to tell a historic story of love, lust, and troubled politics, played out against a fever-pitched passion that threatened a kingdom. Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, his mistress Countess Larisch, his wife Princess Stephanie of Belgium, and young