----- Original Message ----- From: "laura gavoor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [313] Detroit + Dance
> Still amazes me how dense most Americans are when it comes to the arts. > Sorry to soap box, but few dancers live very OKAY lives for lack of support > in this country. Most still live the life of the starving artist with a > couple of other jobs to survive, even while maintianing a position in one of > the world's most prestigious dance companies. > > After all...what is dance music without the dancer. Speaking of dance music, isn't the dancer (in America) usually the dense American? If a professional dancer is with "one of the world's most prestigious dance companies" and still needs to hold multiple jobs, then isn't this a global issue and not some problem of priorities with "most Americans"? Or perhaps the problem is specifically American: "How many poor people, who envy and hate the rich, nevertheless tolerate monstrous inequalities of wealth merely because they hope eventually to be among the few who rise to the top? Some even consider this vicious delusion admirable: 'the American Dream.'" (Allen Wood). Or maybe we average Americans don't support professional dancers because we are expected, by the dancers, to support them as if they are the string by which our distorted values cling to the isolated pockets of "critically aclaimed" cultural enlightenment. /j --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
