Pas de DVD: Ballet Leaps Out of the Box
by JOHN ROCKWELL for the New York Times

Such immersion will never replace live performance, but it can provide an invaluable adjunct to it, quite apart from the minor matter of sheer pleasure. A library of DVD's can offer fascinating contrasts of overall style and approach, as in the radically different interpretations of "Cinderella" by Frederick Ashton and by Maguy Marin: if you can have both, there's no need to choose only one.

published: May 12, 2006