Great dancers, like great actors, escape into the skins of others. Unlike (most) actors, those skins may be lower mammalian in nature. Polina (Anastasia Shevtsova), the title character in Valérie Müller and Angelin Preljocaj’s affecting coming-of-age story, dances through a sundry animal kingdom. A close-up sequence of her pointe shoes mid-rehearsal conjures a horse kicking, … [Read more...]