"In Copenhagen Ratmansky was returning to a project that had been painfully interrupted when Russia invaded Ukraine."
"My way into dance was through music, particularly the musicality of George Balanchine's choreography and that of other dance styles like flamenco, where the music and the movement are almost indistinguishable."
Alexei Ratmansky premiered a new ballet in Copenhagen based on Bach's Art of the Fugue, the composer's unfinished work from 1750. The ballet mirrors the composition's incomplete quality, reflecting Ratmansky's own interrupted creative process when Russia invaded Ukraine. Marina Harss, a dance critic and Ratmansky's biographer, traveled to Denmark to witness the performance and spend time with Ratmansky and the dancers during rehearsals. Harss, who writes regularly on dance for publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times, developed her interest in dance through music and musicality, particularly through studying piano and appreciating George Balanchine's choreography.
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