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In Defense Of Aerial Dance

DANCE Posted: April 16, 2014 12:46 am

Lindsey Butcher, artistic director of Gravity & Levity: “Audiences don’t quite know what it is. Circus aficionados tend to think it waters down aerial skills and feel excluded because it is contemporary dance, but equally I’ve had dance buffs tell me I’m ‘selling out’ to circus. The truth is that aerial dance borrows from both disciplines but aims to forge its own artistic identity.”

DANCE Published: 04.14.14

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 04.14.14

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