Photographing The Elusive Nijinsky

E.A. Hoppé: “Like most of the artists who sketched or painted him, I had to be satisfied with glimpses of him obtained either from the stage wings or by hanging about in draughty corridors. When eventually he sat to me, I found him the least cooperative of all other members of the Ballet. I actually had to ‘waylay’ him.”

Shakespeare’s Final Collaboration Reappears (Or Does It?)

“Though The Tempest has been long acknowledged as William Shakespeare’s final work, in the last several decades many scholars have accepted that he collaborated with John Fletcher on at least three plays.” The last of them, Cardenio, believed lost for almost four centuries, “has reappeared, in a much-disputed form, at [New York’s] Classic Stage Company.”

Tormented Choreographer Javier de Frutos Finds Salvation in (An Actual) Fairy Tale

“What do you do when your last major show has been drowned out by boos from the stalls, called ‘ill-conceived and barkingly offensive’ by the critics, and banned by the BBC? How do you return to work when – because of that scandal – death threats have been left on your phone, you’ve been hospitalised with a nervous breakdown, and spent a year unemployed?”