Social Media Firefight Over Female Choreographers And Sexism In Ballet Sparked By NY Times’ Peck-Wheeldon-Ratmansky Interview

Brief answers by the three (male) star dancemakers to this question (evidently texted to them after the main conversation recorded in the article was over) – “Most of the major choreographers in classical dance are men. Why is that?” – led to a ferocious response from The Observer‘s Luke Jennings, after which “Twitter went mad.” Courtney Escoyne surveys the battlefield.