'You're very fat up here': was dance god George Balanchine a controlling monster?
He was a trail-blazing genius who electrified US ballet. But he was also a dictatorial grudge-bearer who married four of his dancers. How should we remember the Russian-American choreographer? 'I don't have a past. I have a continuous present," said the great Russian-American choreographer George Balanchine, a great believer in forward motion. When Balanchine's health began to fail, in his mid-70s, he resisted making…