“Interesting” Dancers: commentary on a 2019 PNB Midsummer Night’s Dream (having just reviewed the 2023 rendition)

Common wisdom/practice among arts critics is to avoid the adjective “interesting” – probably because it is so vague and ambiguous. Meaning everything, it means nothing. Maybe. I think if we take it to mean “singularly worth watching,” “a different sort of dancer worth watching,” or “a dancer you have to watch”…meaning, your attention is immediately…