At Japan Society, “Nihon Buyo in the 21st Century,” a rare showcase in New York of this style of Japanese dance, forges a link between the past and present.

Some impressionistic structuring, and a calmly charismatic performance from Raphaël Personnaz, elevate Anne Fontaine's absorbing biopic of Maurice Ravel. Indeed Fontaine’s screenplay, co ...

Maurice Ravel in 1912. Wikimedia Commons. Writing to a friend shortly after finishing the work, Ravel described it as having “no form in the true sense of the word, no development, and hardly ...