Amy Watson, new director of the Royal Danish Ballet, speaks to Alastair Macaulay

Alastair Macaulay 9/1/24 Alastair Macaulay 9/1/24

Justin Peck in 2016 interview about his own 2015 “Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes”.

The male Nocturne quintet second movement of Justin Peck’s “Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes”

Alastair Macaulay 7/17/12 Alastair Macaulay 7/17/12

A New Work That’s Steeped in the Classic, but Still Individual

New York City Ballet Sean Suozzi in “In Creases,” by Justin Peck, which had its premiere at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Saturday; at the pianos were Elaine Chelton and Alan Moverman. Photograph: Paul Kolnik

Alastair Macaulay 5/14/12 Alastair Macaulay 5/14/12

A Company Caught in a Crucible of Challenges Rises to the Occasion

Alexei Ratmansky’s “Russian Seasons”, danced by New York City Ballet. Photograph: Julieta Cervantes.

Alastair Macaulay 12/9/08 Alastair Macaulay 12/9/08

In the Cunningham Dimension, Multiplicities in Time and Space

Brandon Collwes, left, of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, performed on one of five stages arranged around a large space at Dia: Beacon. (A second can be seen at right.) Stephanie Berger

Alastair Macaulay 3/24/08 Alastair Macaulay 3/24/08

London Troupe and New York Visitors: Ripples in and Out of Sync

Sarah Lamb and Carlos Acosta of the Royal Ballet in Jerome Robbins’s “Afternoon of a Faun”. Photograph: Peter Mcdiarmid, Getty Images.

Alastair Macaulay 4/26/07 Alastair Macaulay 4/26/07

A New Season Begins with a Celebration of a Master - four Balanchine ballets, April 2007