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Time for modern dance to admit its age

January 25, 2008 by Apollinaire Scherr Leave a Comment

The Martha Graham company's artistic director, Janet Eilber, believes modern dance needs to have a plan for its past--and the fact that modern dance is as much about throwing out the old and embracing the new as any modern art movement is no excuse. Here's the feature I wrote for Newsday. (For those of you who have been following the trials--indeed--and tribulations of the Graham company, some, … [Read more...]

Apollinaire Scherr

is the New York-based dance critic for the Financial Times. She has written regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Newsday, as well as SF Weekly and the East Bay Express, in the Bay Area. She has contributed to... Read More…

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