Zoë Anderson is a dance critic and writer. She is the author of The Royal Ballet: 75 Years (Faber) and The Ballet Lover’s Companion (Yale). She has written for The Independent, the i newspaper, the Times Literary Supplement, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications.
Though Bournonville himself saw A Folk Tale as his finest work, it’s rarely performed outside Denmark. The Royal Danish Ballet bring fleet-footed buoyancy to it all.