gemma D. alexander

Story ballets are supposed to be the most accessible type of ballet. But I’ve always had a hard time with them. To me, the elaborate...

This isn’t actually a list of music I listened to last week. I’ve been keeping track of things I liked, but even as briefly as...

I really have to wonder if Hayao Miyazaki spent time in Qingdao. So much of the old German Concession area of Qingdao looks like the...

Two hours dissecting the fairy variations from the prologue to Marius Petipa’s classic ballet, The Sleeping Beauty felt like he just scratched the surface. ...

This Kentucky Fried Chicken is one of the few American stores I saw the entire time I was in China. Its prime corner location in...