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Article Excerpt
PERHAPS GEORGE BALANCHINE was correct; perhaps, there are no mothers-in-law in ballet, but there certainly are plenty of wicked stepsisters, repressive fathers, muddled mothers, noxious necromancers, and kinky kinsmen. And there sure area lot of mad magicians, crafty crones, felonious fairies, ferocious fakirs, and even a vampire or two. Everybody loves watching villains, and as the reader who turns the page will discover, almost everybody loves dancing them, too.
Of course, contemporary psychiatry informs us that nobody is really bad. Scratch a troubled troll and you'll find a lonely, pathetic, misunderstood, rejected creature who might be helped out of his anguish by a good talk, a bit of free association, a plate of cookies, and a mug of...
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