{"id":505,"date":"2008-01-25T14:41:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T22:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp\/2008\/01\/time_for_modern_dance_to_admit\/"},"modified":"2008-01-25T14:41:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T22:41:42","slug":"time_for_modern_dance_to_admit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/2008\/01\/time_for_modern_dance_to_admit.html","title":{"rendered":"Time for modern dance to admit its age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Martha Graham company&#8217;s artistic director, Janet Eilber, believes modern dance needs to have a plan for its past&#8211;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.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/entertainment\/arts\/ny-ffdnc5549267jan27,0,4526894,print.story\">the feature <\/a>I wrote for Newsday. (For those of you who have been following the trials&#8211;indeed&#8211;and tribulations of the Graham company, some, but not all, of this won&#8217;t be news.)<br \/>\nOkay, that&#8217;s it from me for another week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Martha Graham company&#8217;s artistic director, Janet Eilber, believes modern dance needs to have a plan for its past&#8211;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&#8217;s the feature I wrote for Newsday. (For those of you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/foot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}