Audiences today: why we still need New York City.(70th Anniversary Issue)

From: Dance Magazine | Date: June 1, 1997| Author: Garafola, Lynn | Copyright information

The national identity of dance is still forged in New York, with its vast concentration of diverse companies, despite the siphoning of federal funds to Washington, DC's Kennedy Center. The American Ballet Theater's move to become a regional touring company is good for it and for ballet.

Back in the 1960s if You wanted to be a dancer, you had to be in New York City. It didn't matter what kind of dance -- jazz, ballet, modern, postmodern, ethnic, primitive, or Broadway -- the actio...

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