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  1. The Dracula phenomenon/ any comments? (8 replies)
  2. “Why all the fuss about Balanchine?” (19 replies)
  3. Not getting it/not liking it; where's the line? (30 replies)
  4. Fusion (12 replies)
  5. Are Categories Obsolete? (6 replies)
  6. American Dumbed Down vs. Euro High Falutin'? (18 replies)
  7. those fouettes (42 replies)
  8. Ballet Culture in America (11 replies)
  9. Another path for ballet? (6 replies)
  10. Is this still ballet? (16 replies)
  11. Male Dancers En-pointe (19 replies)
  12. Nutty Nutcrackers (1 reply)
  13. Drosselmeyer's eyepatch (12 replies)
  14. The critic and the home town company; take 39 (17 replies)
  15. Capital of the World? (12 replies)
  16. choreography of bible texts (16 replies)
  17. Robert Gottlieb on ABT (8 replies)
  18. Bejart (14 replies)
  19. What artistic directors do (5 replies)
  20. Mauro Bigonzetti (4 replies)
  21. Is the avant-garde now centered in Europe? (8 replies)
  22. Anacreontics (7 replies)
  23. Peter Martins (7 replies)
  24. What does a professional dancer do in this case? (9 replies)
  25. The Fred Step (13 replies)
  26. Barbie in Swan Lake (22 replies)
  27. Is abstraction and formalism passe? (6 replies)
  28. Balanchine, Martins and "modern" choreography (30 replies)
  29. The two audiences for ballet (4 replies)
  30. It all looks alike.... (10 replies)
  31. How can you tell what went wrong? (7 replies)
  32. High and low culture (10 replies)
  33. "using Swan Lake loosely" (39 replies)
  34. Pas de Quatre (4 replies)
  35. After the giants, what now? (9 replies)
  36. "Fixing problem ballets" (25 replies)
  37. Legato 101 (1 reply)
  38. Cuban school of ballet - distinctive features? (6 replies)
  39. Culture vs. the People (4 replies)
  40. Gothenburg Opera Ballet Repertory (3 replies)
  41. Dramatic Realism -- good or bad? (12 replies)
  42. The Three Act Ballet (29 replies)
  43. Showing What Our Kids Are Thinking (8 replies)
  44. Autistic savants (25 replies)
  45. Casting the "Villain"? (21 replies)
  46. Gaslight (6 replies)
  47. Revisiting revision (6 replies)
  48. Teachout on initial reaction to a masterpiece (4 replies)
  49. Creating a "star" (26 replies)
  50. Strain in classical dancing (7 replies)
  51. Sergei Vikharev's remarks on Bayadere in London (2 replies)
  52. A 19th century take on the Taste issue (6 replies)
  53. What's the dance capital of the world? (24 replies)
  54. Classical male dancing -- stylistic differentiations (18 replies)
  55. The balance between present and past (8 replies)
  56. Ballet and Culture - does it follow or lead? (8 replies)
  57. Has ABT Replaced NYCB as America's top company? (37 replies)
  58. August Bournonville was a greater choreographer than George Balanchine (26 replies)
  59. Value of Dance to Society (1 reply)
  60. A serious article about serious art (23 replies)
  61. Should artistic directors be in the studio? (32 replies)
  62. Kirov vs ABT (1 reply)
  63. The Bag of Tricks (0 replies)
  64. Background material? (2 replies)
  65. Imitation of life (4 replies)
  66. Another take on the keeping works alive issue (2 replies)
  67. Legacies...who has them, who lost them? (6 replies)
  68. bad taste/taste/taste differences (34 replies)
  69. Good trends... what do you see? (20 replies)
  70. Artistry vs Technical virtuosity (4 replies)
  71. Costuming Quibbles (9 replies)
  72. It's the Perfection, Stupid. (36 replies)
  73. Song by song? (16 replies)
  74. "Thoroughly Grounded in Classical Technique" (7 replies)
  75. Is classical ballet almost extinct (43 replies)
  76. Globalisation? or Americanisation? (24 replies)
  77. Turned-in knees (4 replies)
  78. artistic responses to tragedy (2 replies)
  79. What are the "high arts" (51 replies)
  80. The so-called "Modern Art" lobby (10 replies)
  81. "Cookie Cutter" Corps (10 replies)
  82. Think Tank for Ballet Directors (33 replies)
  83. Repertory: what should ballet companies dance? (11 replies)
  84. How Companies Rehearse (15 replies)
  85. Repertory Choreographers and Single-Style Choreographers (7 replies)
  86. Hierarchical Structure II/The difference a corps makes (18 replies)
  87. Hierarchical Structure (27 replies)
  88. The ballet/contemporary dance debate -- a new phase? (17 replies)
  89. romantic pas de deux for same-sex couples (56 replies)
  90. Dancer vs. Choreographer (7 replies)
  91. Balletic Representations (4 replies)
  92. Obvious Steps (or not) to the Music? (7 replies)
  93. Interpreting the dances in Narrative Ballets (12 replies)
  94. Contemporary dance replacing ballet, another angle (14 replies)
  95. Naughty and Nice? (8 replies)
  96. Matthew Bourne (4 replies)
  97. What's wrong with ballet WAS Boston Ballet Box Office Woes (12 replies)
  98. down-scaling Apollo (6 replies)
  99. Flash! New spin on Swan Lake in Australia! (10 replies)
  100. Patron Saints and Guardian Angels? (20 replies)
  101. Critics and Hometown companies -- what would you do? (10 replies)
  102. Newspaper reviews: why so mediocre? (28 replies)
  103. Editors and critics -- what would you do? (1 reply)
  104. What constitutes "successful" choreography? (12 replies)
  105. Heritage Issues (5 replies)
  106. "And not your yellow hair" - Do looks matter to you in balle (48 replies)
  107. levels within a company (20 replies)
  108. Ballet Libretti (9 replies)
  109. New ballet (0 replies)
  110. Petipa and Balanchine: Use of the Diagonal? (0 replies)
  111. Stanton Welch (4 replies)
  112. Why do they do this? (9 replies)
  113. How to encourage choreography? (6 replies)
  114. So what is an American ballet? (16 replies)
  115. Ballet mime and why do they cut it out? (6 replies)
  116. no one ever wished it longer (11 replies)
  117. Healthier Dancers? (4 replies)
  118. The Diamond Project- Wheeldon's comments (5 replies)
  119. where is the heartbeat in the Balanchine legacy? (49 replies)
  120. Body Type-by company (20 replies)
  121. Can an institution be creative? (4 replies)
  122. Multiple Personae? (12 replies)
  123. When would you redesign a dance? (8 replies)
  124. Ballets with no dancing (9 replies)
  125. Retro Shock -- Art after September 11th NOW (0 replies)
  126. Christopher Wheeldon (4 replies)
  127. Eliot Feld - "What happened?" (4 replies)
  128. Ballets, "Light" and "Dark" (16 replies)
  129. Signature roles? (9 replies)
  130. Steps (10 replies)
  131. Interpreting Ballet? (22 replies)
  132. Roles/promotions too early and it's effects (2 replies)
  133. New levels of fitness (34 replies)
  134. Favorite choreographers (0 replies)
  135. Choreography as Couture? (3 replies)
  136. Revisions, New Versions? (6 replies)
  137. The Lincoln Center Debate-Can all the arts together flourish? (10 replies)
  138. Misalignment (12 replies)
  139. Ballet, Dance and Religion (17 replies)
  140. The Island of Lost Phrases (7 replies)
  141. "Bringing Ballet to Everyman" (4 replies)
  142. Somebody Else's Dancers? (13 replies)
  143. Formalism versus ? (9 replies)
  144. Choreographing in Balanchine's Shadow (14 replies)
  145. More definitions of "musical" (0 replies)
  146. So what's "musical"? (17 replies)
  147. Company Signature Pieces (12 replies)
  148. What's a "technician"? (12 replies)
  149. The Greatest Living Choreographer (23 replies)
  150. Standards and criteria (1 reply)
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