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Article: Attitudes.(American modern dance)
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- Dance Magazine
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- April 1, 2006
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We seem to be in the middle of a serious debate on whether New York is (or is still) the center of the dance world. Wow! Big stuff! Big argument! But, as first pointed out in these pages by editor Wendy Perron ("Curtain Up," December 2005), in these days of globalization, one wonders whether such a proposition means very much and whether it's readily demonstrable. New York, or rather the United States (as a London import of more than 40 years standing, I have always noticed that we New Yorkers tend to confuse the two), can with some justification claim to have invented modern dance and, more definitively, postmodern dance.
Early in the 20th century the influence ...