Looking at Dance, Looking at Dancers Looking at Dance, Looking at Dancers A highly opinionated guide to dance appreciation I'll begin with the standard caveat. All that follows is not carved in stone. Each viewer is the best judge of how much they enjoyed a dance performance.
Dancing is at an extraordinarily high and competitive level nowadays.
There is a banquet of talented dancers out there, as a choreographer, I count my blessings. Yet, if I go to see a great actor in a bad play, I come out somehow unsatisfied, knowing that I could have seen him in a great play, and that the congruence of the two would have been intensely moving. I enjoy dancers dancing, but first I look at the dance. When I choreograph, there are three major concepts being balanced as the work progresses. The structural logic of the piece.