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For one week (Dec 12-16, 2005) we've asked a group of people with a keen interest in the dance world to come together online and debate. They'll be posting every day and we invite readers to join the conversation. Reader posts will be accessible by a link at the bottom of each blog entry, at the bottom of this side column, and we'll also excerpt reader comments in the main part of the blog. The intent of this discuassion, as in all AJ topic blogs ... more

Our topic 
Is it true, as Gia Kourlas declared in the New York Times in September, that "New York is no longer the capital of the contemporary dance world"? New York has, for so long, been at the center of dance, the idea is taken on faith in the US. Has the city lost its edge? And if not New York, where are the new capitals of dance? In Amsterdam or Bucharest? Berlin? Brussels, Paris or Vienna? Or has some of the energy that used to propel the New York scene spread elsewhere in America?

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Carolelinda Dickey
Performing Arts Strategies, Pittsburgh

David White
Former director, Dance Theatre Workshop

Cathy Edwards
Dance Theater Workshop

Wendy Perron
Dance Magazine

Laurie Uprichard
Danspace Project

Philip Szporer
critic

David Sefton
UCLA Live

Andre Gingras
Choreographer

Anouk van Dijk
Choreographer

Lane Czaplinski
On the Boards

Nigel Redden
Lincoln Center Festival

Tere O'Connor
Choreographer

John Rockwell
The New York Times

Gia Kourlas
Time Out New York

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How New York Lost Its Modern Dance Reign by Gia Kourlas, The New York Times 09/06/05


Hot Topic: Has NYC lost its leading edge in contemporary dance? - by Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine 12/05

Readers' Take

10 most recent comments

Re: awakening the imagination
by Diane Moss

Re: you'd think...
by Diane Moss

Re: That elusive spark
by Diane Moss

Re: Moments & Economics
by Diane Moss

Re: The Anti-New York Bias
by a choreographer no longer in New York

Re: Mixing It Up
by Jonathan Hollander

Re: not namby-pamby
by Paz Tanjuaquio

Re: A waaaaaaay too long final posting.
by K. Olsen

Re: new york state of mind
by Peter Kyle

Re: A waaaaaaay too long final posting.
by Ravi Narasimhan

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