Extensive international touring quickly followed. It has performed under the aegis of the United States Information Agency in Asia and Southeast Asia. Artists are not necessarily nice people. This is true. Artists are often times, excuse the terminology - assholes.
Artists are often times people who are very, very angry.
They are angry on the Freudian level. They are angry on the level of economics, race, sexual preference. They are railing against things they barely understand. Here, a work by the black, gay, HIV-positive choreographer Bill T. Jones at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Their very presence in the work manipulated and intimidated the audience into a position of sympathy and pity, said Croce.