Article: A different old modern dance.(Column)

You must have noticed while attending dance concerts recently or even not so recently, for, for this seems to have been going on for some years now--that American modern dance is adopting a classic slant. Now l`m not saying that the young ladies are wearing pointe shoes, or that the young gentlemen are dazzling us with their entrechats, but there is a strong classic element--call it influence, if you wish--in, for example, the work of Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, and the Alvin Ailey company. And for that matter, on the other side of the street, classic companies appear to have no compunction whatsoever, and comparatively little difficulty, in absorbing modern dance into ...

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