Terry Teachout, fellow Arts Journal blogger (among many other, illustrious things), has an interesting and comprehensive column in today’s Wall Street Journal on the “decline and near-disappearance of dance in America.” (“Today” is Saturday November 25.) .
Teachout’s conclusion:
And therein lies the challenge of reviving dance in America: Anyone who seeks to launch a new company, or revitalize an old one, must start by figuring how to make large numbers of Americans want to see something about which they no longer know anything — save that Emmitt Smith does it. [emphasis added]
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