“What criteria are involved? In ballet and modern dance, choreography is the shaping factor, the ingredient that brings music, subject matter and performance together into a whole; in a musical, that’s seldom so. But the great choreographers are great directors too: inventors of their own genres of theater.”
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Scholars Realize That The Modern British Monarchy Is Worth Taking Seriously
While it’s true that Queen Victoria and her successors have reigned but not ruled, “[the] modern monarchy is not just a subject for biography,” says one historian. “It has so much more use as a window onto broader cultural trends, attitudes and the way people imagine themselves as citizens.”