I knew something about Alastair Macaulay’s recent piece on “The Master Builders of Ballet’s Future,” struck a familiar chord, but it took a few days for my memory to work it out. I guess I noticed that neither of Macaulay’s candidates for the next big thing in classical ballet choreography (Christopher Wheeldon and Alexei Ratmansky) is a woman.
You know, whatevs, maybe it’s just that the top two candidates happen to be hot dudes. But then I recalled, somewhere in the deep recesses of my brain, that I had read an article, I thought, in The Times, that essentially tackled the lack of women choreographers of ballet.
Well, a simple Google-search brought me to what I was looking for, and it turns out the article was written back in August, by none other than…L. Ro.
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Thanks for bringing this back to the fore and for linking to Claudia’s article. Sexism in ballet is a never-ending problem. When was the last time NYCB’s Diamond Project even put on work by a female choreographer? Women seem to fare much better in modern, as well as other dance forms like ballroom and even hyper-masculine hip hop. I love ballet as an art form but it’s just so aggravating…
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