A Force You Envy and Bow To — Maya Plisetskaya

I'm plainly too ignorant to write about her properly. Maya is fifty here — and this is exactly where age stops applying: she's outside time, and everything is within her means.

The first movement bends the air in the room and makes life something other than it was. There are days when you want art to change things that badly.

What's left is believing we're not useless here either — that we can make the world slightly different too.