Exactly. A bitchy brew of contradictions--the worst of the dance world, full of jealousy and pique.
Martins may not be perfect, but I really like watching City Ballet today. I think they have a lot of beautiful dancers, and I can't find any other company that dances with their nuance and clean, contemporary style. They have an elegant restraint, and not just for Balanchine, but in everything they do--a consistent level of quality.
I wish that I had seen all these dancers all of you have, but I agree with KayDenmark. The dance world is hard enough without tearing every little morsel into a thousand pieces. These poor city ballet dancers who give such beautiful performances and then have to read such horrible things--really because some people seem to have a problem with their director. We can debate Rockwell and Gottlieb and the Times all you want, but I think the best dance writing these days is in the New York Sun.
and yet the prior administration certainly had a fine record with Balanchine. On the other hand he's worked with ABT, a company that can't even take care of Swan Lake (they had a fine one ). Could you imagine NYCB inserting Swamp Thing into Symphony in C? Perhaps things are more complex than the article might suggest. At any rate I look forward to seeing his Sylvia (SFB) and full evening of Mozart (Mostly Mozart Festival) this summer, both in the House of Balanchine.