Ocupation: Critic
Life: b. May 5, 1934
Birthday: May 5
When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of our daily lives – it’s unfaked folk art. The dancers, crashing wave upon wave into those falls, have a happy insane spirit that recalls a unique moment in American life – the time we did the school play or we were ready to drown at a swimming meet. The last time most of us were happy in that way.
topic: Art, Fall, School, Folk Art, Crashing Waves, American Life, School Plays