Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.

Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets.

The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.

Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,' combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as 'Ben.'

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others.