ArtsJournal is hosting another of its compelling online public conversations. This time the topic is dance; specifically, dance in New York and whether or not the Big Apple has lost its claim as the world's dance capital. This description launched the discussion, which is entitled The Center of the Dance World?:
"Is it true, as Gia Kourlas declared in the New York Times in September, that "New York is no longer the capital of the contemporary dance world"? New York has, for so long, been at the center of dance, the idea is taken on faith in the US. Has the city lost its edge? And if not New York, where are the new capitals of dance? In Amsterdam or Bucharest? Berlin? Brussels, Paris or Vienna? Or has some of the energy that used to propel the New York scene spread elsewhere in America?"
The list of luminaries posting in the discussion is rather long: Carolelinda Dickey of Performing Arts Strategies, Pittsburgh; David White, Former director, Dance Theatre Workshop; Cathy Edwards, Dance Theater Workshop; Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine; Laurie Uprichard, Danspace Project; Philip Szporer, critic; David Sefton, UCLA Live; Andre Gingras, Choreographer; Anouk van Dijk, Choreographer; Lane Czaplinski, On the Boards; Nigel Redden, Lincoln Center Festival; Tere O'Connor, Choreographer; John Rockwell, The New York Times; and Gia Kourlas, Time Out New York; and you can post your comments, too!
Discussion (and posting by the likes of you) will continue through this Friday, December 16.
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