Eliot Feld has folded his company for a year after taking 30 years to build it. “People feel bad, people feel sorry, and some people feel it’s a real loss. One sustains a dance company out of internal will, by insisting on its being. They’re very expensive to run and the competition is extraordinary. You build a castle out of sand and if you don’t keep protecting it, or can’t any longer, the tide comes in and it disappears.”