Talk about dance. (News).(creating dance archives)(Brief Article)

From: Dance Magazine | Date: March 1, 2002| Author: Felciano, Rita | Copyright information

Music lovers have it over ballet aficionados in at least one respect. They can revisit great artists, even those who are no longer performing. While a recording may never compete with hearing Kirsten Flagstad or Yehudi Menuhin live, what dancegoer wouldn't love to catch even a glimpse of Edward Villella in Prodigal Son or Nora Kaye in Pillar of Fire? Film and video technologies have vastly expanded our ability to hang on, however imperfectly, to dance performances. Yet most of thes...

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