Still no announcement.
He or she had better get installed fast, judging from the immediate and fast decline in the quality of the dance criticism.
Macaulay on PNB's first night: "All levels of the theater were full" – really, Alastair? Eyewitness reports are that the first night was shamefully under-attended with nearly no one in the upper level. This isn't the first time that Macaulay has blatantly misreported about a performance in order to improperly promote the artists.
And there he goes again, mocking the audience members who, unlike himself, have true knowledge of what they are seeing on stage: "the temptation is to rush immediately into dancer comparisons. Can its
Carla be as good as our Maria and Sterling? How does its Seth compare to
our Chase and Robbie?"
The absolute best thing that the new NYT Culture Editor could do is to completely eliminate all of the current writers on dance and go with stringers. It would save the paper money, and readers would have a 50/50 chance of getting more professional reporting. That's a much better chance than we have now.
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Or, better yet, they could hire you.
Or, better yet, they could hire you.
If NYT was serious about its dance coverage, it would designate a ballet critic and an other-dance critic, and toss out the faux critics currently faking their ways through dance journalism.
If NYT was serious about its dance coverage, it would designate a ballet critic and an other-dance critic, and toss out the faux critics currently faking their ways through dance journalism.
The poor man has no frame of reference unless he has seen Margot Fonteyn dance the part, and then nobody could possibly dance it better, so, one wonders why he even bothers.
The poor man has no frame of reference unless he has seen Margot Fonteyn dance the part, and then nobody could possibly dance it better, so, one wonders why he even bothers.
Hi dc. My first thought while reading his gassy PNB review was “What’s this guy smoking?” You’d think the NYT would be embarrassed.
Hi dc. My first thought while reading his gassy PNB review was “What’s this guy smoking?” You’d think the NYT would be embarrassed.