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    The Shifting Fortunes of Manon, Ballet’s Femme Fatale

    12. June 2019 Kourosh Maheri Top

    Is the heroine of Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet an active agent in her own rise? Or a projection of self-deceiving masculine desire?      

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