‘Filename: FUTURFAX’

Re Lewis Segal’s review of my piece (“Compelling Visions in ‘Borders,’ ” May 23):

“Filename: FUTURFAX” was misspelled. As anyone with a computer knows, file names can’t have over eight letters. The piece may not belong in a dance series, but then, by the same token, it should not be reviewed by a dance reviewer--nor, for that matter, should any of my pieces.

I don’t do “grandiose earth-mother or queen-bitch roles”; I have played the Earth (in a very unmotherly way) and the Death Crone (ditto). Aside from being snide, insulting, sexist and speciesist, the queen-bitch thing is not true.

Over the years I have played: a monk, a scientist, a gorilla, a Neolithic King, Marie Antoinette, Tsaritza Alexandra, a bag lady, a hominid, a tectonic plate. Never a “queen-bitch.” As for my lament being for “ her world, her life” (emphasis Segal’s), I have never done a less (emphasis mine) autobiographical piece. Too bad Segal brings so much baggage to his viewing that he can’t discern what’s there for the projections he imposes on it.

RACHEL ROSENTHAL

Los Angeles