‘YouTube Is Awash in Pirouettes! Is Virtuosity the New Porn?’

“Google your favorite ballet stars, and you’ll find assorted bravura passages that show off his leaps, his spins, her balances on the tip of her tiny, heavily shellacked toe, their amazing flexibility. … Subtleties don’t play well on YouTube, so the abundant dance clips have been promoting a kind of connoisseurship of virtuosity.”