Category: Depictions of Dance

  • Depictions of Dance

    I recently watched the first season of the Netflix series, The Royals, which has a character named Ophelia who is ostensibly a professional-level dancer who has been invited to audition for “Mr. Ballantine’s” dance company in New York. This is a tongue-in-cheek reference to Mr. Balanchine (George Balanchine, the longtime director of The New York…