Peter Martins had all of the dancers before his eyes when he made the casting decision for Square Dance. Have faith! He's a very serious man I believe in the choices he makes as much as I do Borree. She may have a fair performance now and then but she's a virtuouso, a very great artist with enormous talent and long experience. The only thing you can say about her is that she's little but her body is very unusual and beautiful, with a long torso yet much better proportioned than Kay Mazzo was.
In Rudolf Bing's book '5000 Nights at the Opera,' he had this to say about critics:
(This is the Gottlieb-Greskovic-Acocella troika...)
"Psychologically, the position of the critic is very difficult. He cannot exist until somebody does something, which is an unhappy, frustrating set of circumstances. Only rarely does anyone set out to be a critic as he might set out to be a painter or a composer. In nine out of ten cases, becoming a critic is the result of frustration, a failure to make a career as a violinist or a pianist or a composer. Human nature being as beastly as it is, a critic makes a name for himself with bad reviews-to make a name with good reviews a critic has to be a giant with great enthusiasm and sense of mission, and there are always very few giants."
Peter Martins is a giant and he does have a mission.