You have to laugh at how ballet takes the old Graeco-Roman myths, often hideously violent ones, and re-tells them in the prettiest of ways. Take Diana and Actaeon. The short ballet is a showpiece ...

Diana and Actaeon depicts the young Actaeon out hunting and stumbling into a sacred grotto where Diana and her nymphs are bathing; and in The Death of Actaeon, we see the goddess exacting vengeance on ...