Both views could be right. Mackrell focused on the importance of the process, while Crisp pointed out that the final product was not of the same high choreographic standards normally produced by ENB. But hey, no one ever said it would be. That's why this was a WORKSHOP performance. No one ever forced Crisp to come ot the workshop, nor did anyone ever promote it as anything but a limited-audience workshop. If Crisp doesn't like it, he doesn't have to watch it. Unlike the case with some other companies, ENB does not seem to be promoting their experimental process as a finished product ready for a mass audience. Workshops are absolutely vital to the art. One of the problems of being an established choreographer is that once you've spent 1 week of company time making a ballet, people expect to see something for that result. But that's not the way art works --- often you need to do "studies", try things out, as a way of developing where you're going. How many painters make sketches here and there that are never displayed in museums? How many musicians doodle around for hours on their keyboards before they write their next symphony?
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