Does this mean a national conversation on dance won’t happen until we give up answering local conditions? I hope not-but the local/national tension is in evidence tonight: Sometimes the energy in the room resembles a deb party, and sometimes it’s more like the scurry you see when you turn over a long-rooted rock.ħ:30 pm, time to scurry over to the Walker for some securely national, i.e. In Minneapolis, apparently, we’re more given to identity politics than people in New York who knows why, but I’d bet it’s rooted in experience here. To get a real national conversation going, Horwitz suggests, dance everywhere needs to get more on the same page, so that when you read about a dance event in Philly, you can go to the theater in Houston and see something connected.īut a combination of long gestation periods, cooperative process, small budgets, and the need for an audience keeps dance local. The same isn’t true of dance-and so far it’s meant that only dance with the New York imprimatur gets national coverage, and then only a thin sort of coverage that people outside dance and outside New York mostly don’t bother reading (and who can blame them?).
But the national conversation around those other forms can exist because Americans everywhere have access to the same films, music, and books. Andrew Horwitz of Culturebot, flown in from New York for the Platform, wants to create a livelier national conversation about dance, similar to the conversation that flows around film, indie rock, and American novels – no controversy there. In a side room, post toast, the natural question of the relation between local and national dance arises. Sage Cowles gives a toast general goodwill towards our foremost dance patroness is amplified by the fact that she’s also supplying the champagne. I say a selection, but it seems like everyone’s here, from the ladies of Ragamala-regal in the middle of the room in Cleo eyes and sharp dresses-to Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad with baby in tow, cute, curly-headed, rambling.
#JOURNEY TO THE SAVAGE PLANET FLORA FREE#
6:30 pm, Wednesday, La Belle Vie: Corralled by a bank of free shrimp, dance-people swirl around one end of the lounge, hugging, clinking glasses, celebrating the Minnesota Contemporary Dance Platform, a mini-festival geared at raising the profile of Minnesota dance across the nation and the world, for which presenters from all over have been invited to view a selection of Minnesota dance.
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