A critic had animal faeces smeared on her face by a ballet director, who apparently took offense at a review she wrote.
The Hannover state opera house in Germany apologised for the incident, and said it was suspending ballet director Marco Goecke with immediate effect.
A furious Goecke approached the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung's dance critic, Wiebke Huester, during the interval of a premiere at the opera house on Saturday, and asked what she was doing there.
