Philadelphia Ballet’s The Merry Widow: a Belle Époque dream

Former ballerina Leigh Donlan trained in Russian technique and a variety of folk and modern dance techniques, was Children’s Ballet Mistress at the Washington School of Ballet in Washington, D.C., Director of the Athenaeum School of Ballet in Alexandria, Virginia, and studied English at the University of Oregon and Public Relations at Georgetown University. She has been writing for Ballet to the People since 2014, and is currently on the faculty at Princeton Ballet School.