Alastair Macaulay
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Alastair Macaulay is a dance critic for the New York Times. He was previously chief dance critic at The Times
Literary Supplement and chief theater critic of the Financial Times
, both of London. He founded the British quarterly Dance Theater Journal in 1983.
Macaulay started a controversy in 2010 when he disparagingly commented on the weight of ballet dancer Jenifer Ringer. In a review of a performance of The Nutcracker
, he wrote that Ringer, as the Sugar Plum Fairy, "looked as if she'd eaten one sugar plum too many."
The Times
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Literary Supplement and chief theater critic of the Financial Times
Financial Times
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, both of London. He founded the British quarterly Dance Theater Journal in 1983.
Macaulay started a controversy in 2010 when he disparagingly commented on the weight of ballet dancer Jenifer Ringer. In a review of a performance of The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...
, he wrote that Ringer, as the Sugar Plum Fairy, "looked as if she'd eaten one sugar plum too many."