Sharp, passionate and insightful, Jennifer Homans offers little hope for ballet surviving as an art formJennifer Homans's history of the art, culture and political context of ballet is like a beautiful painting in a slightly askew frame. She is a former dancer who trained at the School of American Ballet in New York, and was the wife of the historian Tony Judt, who died in August. She exchanged the stage for academia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on December 4, 2010