Thoughts on the Once and Future Dance Boom

by ANNA KISSELGOFF
the New York Times

Yet nothing would be riskier than to declare the party over. The dance boom that exploded at the end of the 60's and lasted until the 90's has shrunk into a holding pattern of recycled aesthetics. But even this consolidation of the familiar hints at potential fresh directions.

The Intimate, Unified Universe of Dance

by JOHN ROCKWELL
the New York Times

WE live in tribal times. Everywhere we look, proud unities have splintered into warring clans. What's true in the Middle East or in the once collegial United States Senate seems true in the arts as well. Broadway babies are unlikely to pay much heed to Off Off Broadway experiments. Opera maniacs pay little attention to chamber music, let alone seriously unlistenable contemporary music, let alone hip-hop.

Crossover Dance? It's Not a Big Deal

By JOHN ROCKWELL
January 23, 2005

Funny how much fretting an innocent, optimistic essay I wrote two weeks ago, about the unity of dance and the helpful fructification of one dance form by another, has provoked. From letters I've received and chat-room exchanges on the Internet, it seems to me that certain ballet lovers are so profoundly anxious about the future of their art that they resist obvious solutions to the problems they decry.