Lewitzky’s Approach to Dance Audiences

Sorry to read that Lewitzky feels that “in order to understand dance, it’s not enough to see dance.” Why can’t Los Angeles choreographers drop what appears to be a need to defend dance as an “art” and instead simply move both their dancers and their audience? Only then will a “whole new relationship between dancers and audience” happen.

The Dance Gallery as a building is not in itself a solution. What is needed is a truly modern dance (not to be read Modern Dance) attitude to live within its walls.

“MTV dance” invaded the dance business (and it is a business) in the ‘80s just as rock invaded the music business in the ‘50s. It would appear that it is not the audience that is “intimidated” by this new dance world but rather the choreographic traditionalists.

CHARLES BERLINER, Santa Monica