Giannandrea Poesio

Mad about the boys

Choreographic legacies are tough to handle; there is always the risk of turning a once vibrant dance into a theatrically dead museum piece.

issue 25 September 2010

Choreographic legacies are tough to handle; there is always the risk of turning a once vibrant dance into a theatrically dead museum piece. The preservation of choreographic milestones is certainly paramount, but so is the need to provide artists with new challenges, especially within those companies that, having formed and thrived around a prominent artistic figure, remain too attached to their long-deceased founders’ aesthetics.

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