Tobias: Problems With Petronio

Everyone likes Stephen Petronio, right? Tobi Tobias has reservations: “What’s not to like?  Well, I have two complaints, both of them serious.  One:  Petronio substitutes fashion (not just clothes, but lifestyle, to use a relevant trash word) for meaning and feeling.  Two:  The dancing he devises—while executed with stunning fluidity, speed, and strength—is extremely limited in vocabulary, rhythmic interest, and structure.”