“There’s no going back. There just isn’t. Newspapers are never again going to be a dominant force in our lives, and the bizarre economics that briefly made it possible to subsidize full-time professional arts critics via want ads and real estate listings are not likely to return.”
Tag: 11.27.11
Recreating Bella: Keeping Legendary Choreographer Alive Through Teaching
“Unlike music (written in scores), art (hanging on museum walls) and books (housed in libraries), dance is lost without person-to-person transmission from the designate to the next-generation dancer who is learning a part. Fortunately, though, there are keepers of the flame who can pass on those masterworks.”
Making ‘Supernatural’ Dance Theatre Requires A Lot Of Normal Hard Work
How does a husband and wife team adapt, write and choreograph an adaptation of the confusing Euripides play Alcestis? They use Yiddish silent films and videos of horse wranglers, of course.