Bashing French Dance

There are many reasons to dislike what the French have contributed to dance, writes Robert Gottlieb. There’s Sylvie Guillem, of course, “a dancer with the fatal combination of tremendous ability, a ruthless determination to do it her way and a total lack of sensibility. I hate to think of the number of ballerinas whose classicism has been corrupted by her extravagant ways.” And then there’s Maurice Bejart…