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Stepping out of the past: modern dance's heritage debate by Judith Mackrell

Contemporary dance is now of an age when it has to decide which pieces belong in the canon " and whether there should even be a canonHeritage only used to be a concern for the big ballet companies such as the Royal Ballet, which has long had to navigate a balance between maintaining their repertory of 19th and 20th-century classics and commissioning new works. But as contemporary dance acquires more and more of its o…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:37AM on May 21, 2015

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