So my subscription to the New Yorker ran out the week before this article came out. I’m only catching up to it now but I thought I’d link to it as well.
Here’s an interesting response to both articles from a presenter’s point-of-view. Scroll down to read a response from Tere O’Connor, one of the so-called surrealist, inaccessible choreographers named in Acocella’s piece.
Money quote:
So tighten Joan’s corset, give her a candle, send her back into her beloved centuries and let her write endless, numbingly boring articles about how many turns Alexis Whoever did or how skinny she looks or how well Mark Morris followed the score this time.
September 20th, 2005 at 12:44 pm
Hi - thanks for mentioning this. I made a comment about it in my blog (click on homepage link). I’m not in O’Connor’s corner on this one.