Choreographers Have Always Borrowed (So Quit Hatin’ On Beyoncé)

Alastair Macaulay observes that countless Nutcrackers make far bigger unacknowledged borrowings from Lev Ivanov and George Balanchine than Beyoncé did from Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker – and that Balanchine himself, who borrowed freely from Petipa, said, “God creates – I assemble.”