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Article Excerpt
ONE OF MY favorite quotations about dance--and I know I have quoted it more than once--is also one of the saddest. It is the now virtually forgotten choreographer David Lichine (1910-1972) saying, "Choreography is like moisture in the mouth of an orator." The phrase obviously doesn't mean quite what Lichine meant it to mean, for choreography is the product of a choreographer, whereas mere moisture is not the product of an orator--hot air, perhaps. Still, the subtext of Lichine's remark instantly strikes home. Choreography, and indeed the fabric and substance of dance itself, are fragile things and without care can dry up as quickly as the morning dew.
Take Lichine himself: An occasionally exciting, if erratic, star dancer, he was never a major choreographer. His most durable work was his 1940 Graduation Ball for de Basil's Original Ballet Russe, which very occasionally...
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