A Wild Success Could Be A Bad Omen

New York’s new bargain-basement festival, Fall For Dance, wrapped up its first season this past weekend, and the afterglow is something to behold. “Dance presenters, choreographers and artistic directors are full of praise for what they call courageous programming, for the audacity of trying (successfully) to fill a 2,700-seat theater for six nights of dance and for bringing five companies together on stage each night for a $10 ticket.” And yet, some in the business are wondering if the success of the fest might not indicate a very real danger for the dance profession as a whole…