A Body of Work: Dancing to the Edge and Back

David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as “the most exciting male dancer in the western world,” presents a look at his artistic life—up to the moment he returns to the stage after a devastating injury that almost cost him his career.

Beginning with his real—life Billy Elliot childhood—an all—American story marred by intense bullying—and culminating in his hard—won comeback, Hallberg’s “moving ...