- Sarah Kaufman
- Critic
Sarah Kaufman received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and has been The Washington Post’s dance critic since 1996. But after logging serious sit-time in opera houses, church basements, fairground tents and lawn chairs, what moves her most is seeing grace happen where she least expects it
Three new takes on ballet offer two revelations
At the Kennedy Center on Friday night, a new ballet took the form as its subject and didn’t blow it to pieces.
Ballet Across America: ‘Les Patineurs’ and ‘Wunderland’
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“Les Patineurs,” performed by the Sarasota Ballet, is the jewel of this year’s series at the Kennedy Center.
‘Three Movements’ makeover retains ballet’s transcendence
Rendition of the Balanchine work caps the first night of the Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America.
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