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Article: Forward to the past.(attitudes)(Charles Reinhart on ballet dancing)
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- Dance Magazine
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- December 1, 2007
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Earlier this year, as summer idly threatened to edge its way into fall, Charles Reinhart, presiding genius and head bottlewasher of the inimitable American Dance Festival, had, not for the first time, a great idea. But this idea, unlike most worth calling great, was not looking forward but looking back. Dance, Reinhart concluded, was eating up its past, devouring its old dance works with that same avid greed with which New York City consumes its old buildings.
With an eye to making some kind of start at putting a smallish end to a large situation, he called together a committee consisting of himself and a collegial cabal of senior American dance critics-Jack ...