Remnick, David “Danse Macabre: A Scandal at the Bolshoi Ballet.” The New Yorker (2013). David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker Magazine since 1998 and author of “Lenin’s Tomb” which received both the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and a George Polk Award for excellence in journalism, writes about the scandals in Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet Theater and its eerie inclination for reflecting changes in both Russian culture and politics. Remnick discusses the Bolshoi before, during and after the end of the Soviet Empire and how it mirrored the collapsing nation, losing many of its best dancers to the West through defection, slowly being defunded, and literally falling apart just as the country was going into a state of economic disintegration. Today its reflected by the small and large scandals that have plagued the Bolshoi and how these kinds of attacks reflect what happens in Russian business, politics, and in the street of Russia itself. By focusing on several people in the Bolshoi Ballet Company, Remnick reveals just how disillusioned Russia has become since the collapse of the Soviet Union, almost as if the sulfuric acid that was thrown into the directors face is a metaphor for how Russia is corroding away. This publication would be of interest to mainly affluent audiences who may be interested in Russian ballet as well as its culture and politics.