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Colgate University Richard Shinn, LL.D., president, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Alvin Ailey, D.F.A., choreographer...
...fads that have parasitically grown with the popularity of ballet. "Reviewing should function like a Food and Drug Administration," she notes, "even if that function is largely futile." What she calls "pop ballet" is a particular target: "Whole repertories (the Stuttgart Ballet) or parts of repertories (the Jeffrey, the Ailey) devoted to slick approximations of the higher article." In an essay called "Selling It," she has very harsh words for the American Ballet Theater, which she accuses of merchandising stars in shoddy productions while neglecting the growth of the company...