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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

George Balanchine

Feb 3 – Apr 1, 2020
Place de la Bastille, 75012 Paris, France

Three masterpieces by George Balanchine. Concerto Barocco, 1941—Gödel, Escher, and Bach go to the ballet. The Four Temperaments, 1946—Masaccio’s Expulsion meets MoMA in a sexy, sweeping invocation of Modernism. Serenade, 1934—Fokine’s Les Sylphides, but through a glass darkly. —L.J.