Reading Joseph Horowitz’s essay, “Bing, Bernstein, Balanchine,” and then re-reading the passages that apply to ballet at Lincoln Center, I’m suddenly thrown back to the 1960s and a different view of tradition and innovation. As a modern dancer in New York, I welcomed the founding of the New York State Council on the Arts in 1961 and the National Endowment for the Arts in 1965. Would … [Read more...]