By Carrie Gaiser Casey PhD, San Francisco Ballet Guest Lecturer February 9, 2012
Program 2 at San Francisco Ballet prompts one of those unanswerable questions that I see bandied about occasionally on internet ballet forums. With dances by three leading contemporary choreographers – Wayne McGregor, Mark Morris, and Christopher Wheeldon – the question inevitably arises, what IS contemporary ballet? Now this question of labels and aesthetic rubrics is, [...]
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Musings from a Dance Scholar: What IS Contemporary Ballet?
PhD, San Francisco Ballet Guest Lecturer
February 9, 2012