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Patricia Wilde talks to me about a whole mess of things in the new, Summer 2013 issue of Ballet Review (part two of our interview series). And there’s so much else in the new issue as well. You may think … Continue reading →

For that’s what Robert Gottleib calls the book in The New York Review of Books!

One of the things that’s wrecking dance and particularly ballet is the ticket prices. I just looked at an interview I did literally decades ago with a friend of the family who was a social work student, then professional, and … Continue reading →

“What good will that do?” I’ve had people ask me when I tell them to pick up the phone, at least make a token effort to improve the future—to ensure that there will be one—to keep our country and the … Continue reading →

Antony Tudor said, or is reported to have said, something profound about ballet and dance that should be trumpeted over the PA  of every school and theater. From my interview with Tudor’s former-assistant Airi Hynninen in the summer 1995 issue … Continue reading →

David Swanson at warisacrime.org defines television “news” stations and the way they “fill fluff that no one listens to into the spaces between advertisements for crap no one buys.”

“Anytime you see my name on the schedule, just go sit down in the corner and I’ll forget you’re even there,” Antony Tudor said to me in 1983 when I asked if I could watch his rehearsals. He knew me … Continue reading →

Laura Nyro’s Save the Country has never been more pertinent. I recently listened to it on the Spread Your Wings and Fly CD, a record of a concert she gave at the Fillmore East in 1971.  I just bought it; … Continue reading →

For the used-Bentley salesman running things across the pond: Why, indeed, were — “British firms granted permission to export deadly chemicals to Syria” ?????????? It’s all over the British press.

Wesley Messamore at PolicyMic tells us about Washington’s own use of chemical weapons: “10 Chemical Weapons Attacks Washington Doesn’t Want You to Talk About.”