Gudrun Willcocks

Enter: resplendent male warriors known as baris enter carrying sharp, pointed spears. They wear embroidered gold and red shields over...

What’s the pointe?

Frederick Wiseman, La Danse–Le Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, 2009. Courtesy MoMA

'Ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers and man is the gardener,’...