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Article: Is This Crisis Critical?(fate of modern dance companies)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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SO WHEN, I was asked recently, are you going to write about the Martha Graham crisis? It seemed a fair question, but one to which I had no ready, or at least not very ready, answer. Of course, Ron Protas, the heir to the Graham estate and copyright owner not only of her ballets but even the trademarked Martha Graham name, was rather foolish to imagine that, as a non-dancer, he could function very satisfactorily as the company's artistic director, whether or not that had been Graham's dying wish.
Experience has shown--OK, Diaghilev was that necessary exception to prove the role--that artistic directors of dance companies must, at some level, be dancers in their ...