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Knocked sideways: one choreographer--belatedly--feels the sting of the critics.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-DEC-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Knocked sideways: one choreographer--belatedly--feels the sting of the critics.(COPING with CRITICISM)(David Parker )(Personal account)

Article Excerpt
Harsh words from critics, now and forever a click away on the Internet, can harrow. This seems pretty plain, I know. But, amazingly, I had never really given this much thought until one day last spring when I wanted to put my head in the oven and kill myself because of a wretched review. Until then, I had never placed much stock in reviews and now I found myself unable to defang one of them. Everywhere I went, I felt it snapping at me from all sides like a terrier. What had become of my poise? Baffled and battered, I reviewed my past for answers.

I got my first mention in the press when I was 23. Waking before sunrise on a summer morning in 1982, I sprinted to the newsstand on Saint Mark's Place (modern dancers still lived...

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