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Article Excerpt
What attitude does mainstream America have toward dance, and why should dance professionals care? As someone who monitors the media closely, I have become increasingly disturbed about the low reputation of the fine arts with the mass audience to whom the powerful medium of political talk radio caters. Conservative hosts and callers regularly deride modern art as a scare and dismiss artists as frivolous, elitist, immoral, sacrilegious, and anti-American.
These attitudes have real-life consequences when local or state governments curtail arts funding as a wasteful extravagance. Even in Philadelphia, with its resident symphony orchestra, ballet and modern dance companies, City Hall last year shockingly eliminated its Office of Arts and Culture. Nationally, there has been...
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