Ms. Tharp, now 70 and a grandmother, has long been known for her iconoclastic works, which date back to 1965 and range from stark cerebral dances to grander ballet spectacles.

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Mr Kelly told reporters that police took Mr Hernandez back to the scene of the crime, which is now a shop selling spectacles.

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Cheap and telegenic, such spectacles have turned loss into profit, appalling aficionados but pleasing punters who have poured back into the rings.

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That honor goes to finding out, back during my first stay in China in the mid-1980s, when glasses were in short supply, that spectacles were distributed with preference given to those who had attained a high level of education, the notion being that academics and teachers needed to read for a living.

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