Two years after the assault, Marco Goecke is staging a nontraditional “Nutcracker.” Ballet Basel hopes the focus will stay on his choreography.
When the German choreographer Marco Goecke bumped into a dance critic in 2023 shortly after she had savaged his work, he took out his anger on her by smearing feces from his dachshund, Gustav, on her face.
That incident, at the Hanover State Opera, p... [923 chars]