Since there was no pecuniary reward that I could offer these artists, they had to do it for the love and experience of working and for whatever amount of trust they might have in me as a director. The dance company may very well be a dinosaur. Certainly one only has to look around for a short while before recognizing the multiple reasons why the creation of a dance company is a seemingly irrational undertaking. It appears that anything can be created through a digital image. It can be more easily manipulated, distributed, packaged, sold.
Painting is dead.
The novel is dead. And yet, they continue to persist. These are the questions that plague me as a director of a performance company. The dance company, especially in the 90's, has proven to be an unviable financial institution. The audiences are connoisseurs, becoming scarce and homogenized, threatening the whole business with becoming self-referential.