BOOKS: The macho dancers' rise
... The macho dancers' rise ANN NUGENT on an informative study of men's place in ballet Men Dancing, by Alexander Bland and John Percival (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, £15). If in the last century the male dancer s role was primarily subservient to his partner, the arrival of megastars such as Nureyev and Baryshnikov, coupled with not a little common sense, has now put the balance right. Men and women ...