Notes

Judith Mackrell. "Alexei Ratmansky: 'I hated making people unhappy'" (guardian.co.uk):
"I love the work of people like Wayne [McGregor] or Akram [Khan]. But when I see it, my own choreography feels not old-fashioned, but very different. They are pushing it, while I'm just trying to accumulate everything I know."
"What I admire about New York City Ballet dancers is their rhythmic complexity. You can see all shades of rhythm in their bodies. With Russians, what you see is a melodic thread in their dancing, an upper-body expressiveness that brings out another side of the work. In ABT, the dancers have a bit of both. It's good."