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Strikes cripple French dance scene.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-OCT-03
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Strikes cripple French dance scene.(Dance Matters)

Article Excerpt
France has long been considered a haven for youthful struggling artists. Throughout the 1970s and '80s, young American dancers including Trisha Brown and Carolyn Carlson helped shape the French dance scene as they escaped their desperate working conditions at home to benefit from this country's state-funded El Dorado. All that is about to change, however, as the Chirac government works to drastically cut the funding it pumps into the pockets of les intermittents and les precaires, the entertainment industry's itinerant performers and casual workers.

Show-business activity came to a grinding halt on the morning of June 27, when the government announced a drastic and...

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