dance and the real world
i just read a comment by “hangups,” providing this link to audience responses to the clarice smith show last month (see earlier post on that show).
wow, it’s really depressing! i had gotten so mad at the washington post reviewer who trashed the show, but it seems that a LOT of people agreed with her! read it–you’ll see that a majority of watchers disliked most of the pieces.
it depresses me most b/c i don’t like to feel so disconnected from the “real” world. i can’t convince myself that living a bubble of art and listening only to what my comporaries think is going to keep my dancing honest and relevant. it’s very strange how we got so disconnected from the rest of the world…
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i don’t think this makes the reviewer right on. i even hold the reviewer more responsible. modern dance is evlolving again. to make a crude reference to crawling on the floor and saying outright parents beware that this is what you would be sending your children to school to study is totally reckless. i guess that just reinforces what the audience may not know or understand about modern. the way i look at it - there was a great opportunity for the reviewer to educate and make awareness to the style. then constructive ways could have been found to critique it for that style without knocking the style down. i would really like Sarah to baseline dance (or codify her baseline) and publish a treatise on what we are being judged upon.
Comment by Anonymous Director — March 13, 2008 @ 8:56 am
Bottom line about that review is that I thought it had an unprofessional and uninformed tone. Maybe there’s something to the criticism (for some people) if others agreed with it, but there are different ways of delivering the message, including moderating it with (as the above commenter points out) some context about the style of dance.
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