Creation is the basic matter of dance, but it needs an hospitable ground, a fervent culture, in which to grow. Currently we have a few books, the light of memory, a small handful of newsletters and magazines and a few archival pockets. I don't think people engaged with the art of dance realize how baffled people in general are by it. It is vital to get this visceral, passionate, spiritually potent art form connected with cultural, historic, narrative and kinetic clues about how to see it. To support it so people can relate to it emotionally or intellectually, so they can love it, as do the dancers and choreographers who create it.
Dance needs champions, proponents, interpreters, chroniclers.
It needs to claim the richness of its own memory, or risk suffering a sorrowful artistic Alzheimer's.