Publicizing Ballet.
― As I was reading Suzanne Farrell's book, "Holding On to the Air", an interesting passage caught my attention. Ms. Farrell talks about the publicity that a new Balanchine ballet would generate. She says that Balanchine did not like to give the press backstage information, as he believed that it ruined the magic of the stage; the details of the dancer's lives should not be laid out for the public to see. He wanted the audience to see the dancers as elusive people they could only know through [...].
