She may not have the experience of running a ballet company — few women do — but she has star power. (Mr. Stafford, solid and serious, can’t match her in charisma, and it’s best that he doesn’t try.) Neither Ms. Whelan nor Mr. Stafford is a choreographer, and that’s good: The last thing City Ballet needs is a return to the gloomy period of the 1990s when Mr. Martins was churning out one mediocre ballet after another. It’s possible that many City Ballet dancers, especially the younger ones, have never heard of Ms. Childs, who has been choreographing ballets in Europe for years. Ms. Whelan gets out into the world — recently, I’ve seen her at New York Live Arts and the Museum of Modern Art.

Source: New York Times March 01, 2019 20:03 UTC