Debra communes with ballerina Marie Taglioni in the lobby of the Hermitage Theatre, St. Petersburg, 2003
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Sometimes artists work outside genres — and sometimes they don’t convey a clear sense that they know other people have crossed those boundaries before them. Is it the job of the artist to know and acknowledge that history, or is it just critics like me — who are required by professional standards to be exposed [...]
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Ephemeral arts, perception, and the shape of memory
Frederick Wiseman, the master documentarian based in Cambridge and Paris, was asked recently about his attraction to ballet, the subject of the 2009 “La Danse.”
I used to sneak into the ballet in New York when I was in law school…I became fascinated with this beautiful form which is so evanescent, so ephemeral, and all the [...]
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Thinking about Bill T. Jones’ Lincoln portraits