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Article: A Shrivel of Dance Critics.(Brief Article)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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WHAT WOULD YOU CALL A ROOM CROWDED WITH DANCE CRITICS? WE HAVE WORDS THAT ARE CALLED COLLECTIVE NOUNS--SUCH AS AN EXALTATION OF LARKS, A PARLIAMENT OF OWLS, A CLOWDER OF CATS, AND A TIDING OF MAGPIES.
It has been suggested that dance critics came not in a group but a shrivel, not as a gathering but a smear. All in good fun, of course. (Who, after all, would not be amused at being called a member of a smear of dance critics?)
About 150 men and women who write about dance gathered in New York City over the weekend of July 20 to 22 for the annual Dance Critics Association Conference in an effort not only to define themselves but to discuss the changes ...