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Article: Pilgrim's Progress.(Ralph Lemon)
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- Dance Magazine
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- September 1, 2000
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Ralph Lemon set out to make a dance about Buddhism, but eight months in Asia left him mystified.
How perfectly Zen.
WHEN RALPH LEMON folded his dance company in 1995, many people saw it as a harbinger of worse things to come. The economy was still recuperating from a recent recession. The National Endowment for the Arts was under siege. If a troupe celebrated as widely as Lemon's could not survive, perhaps the whole company model was poised for extinction.
Lemon viewed it differently. A few days before his troupe's last gig, which featured a dance aptly titled Killing Tulips, he told me his decision to disband came in response to creative ...