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Article: Audiences today: why we still need New York City.(70th Anniversary Issue)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
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Back in the 1960s if You wanted to be a dancer, you had to be in New York City. It didn't matter what kind of dance -- jazz, ballet, modern, postmodern, ethnic, primitive, or Broadway -- the action was in the Big Apple, where the biggest companies had their studios, professional training was readily available, casting directors did their hiring, and the thriving dance community was large, supportive, and diverse. Audiences were growing, there were free performances in Central Park and cheap tickets to performances elsewhere. In certain parts of the city, the streets were fined with studios.
Those palmy days came to an end in the mid-1970s, when the city's ...