Eve Tushnet
on Balanchine’s “Prodigal Son” ballet:
I’m glad nobody told me anything about George Balanchine’s choreography for The Prodigal Son before I watched it. The librettist, Boris Kochno, made a lot of changes to the Biblical story, and all of these changes sound like terrible ideas.
more–from my series on portrayals of penitence. I really like how this turned out.
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