Dance Magazine, September 1st, 2000
A FEW MONTHS back, I seem to have caused a certain flutter in the dovecotes by suggesting that we were suffering not so much from too few good choreographers, but ironically enough, from too many mediocre practitioners of a necessarily public art. The choreographer is a comparatively rare artist, certainly as rare, experience would suggest, as the composer. Not many dancers are true choreographers, any more than many orchestral players, or even great soloists, have a bent for composing.
The interpretive artist and the creative artist are usually quite different animals--a Martha Graham or a...
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