Bartenieff choreography

Hip Hop at the Lincoln Center Outdoor Festival

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Reading about dance

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 21:  Author Li C...Image by Getty Images via @daylife
One of the joys that I haven't devoted enough free time to, is reading accounts of dancers and artists, as inspiration for my own life and work.

On Tuesday I picked up the book, "Mao's Last Dancer", thinking I would read a few chapters a day.  When I finished the intro I was sucked into the world of Li Cunxin, and couldn't put it down until I had finished it later that day.

It was a story that was all too familiar for me.  Life in the arts choses us, not the other way around, I believe.  Not that I am fatalistic about life and art.  It is just for those of us who have always made a deep connection with the arts, there seems to be no other way for a life well lived.

As I haed into my lfe in New York, I will carry Li's story in my heart.

I hope to carry other stories of inspiration home to my life and my work.
Enhanced by Zemanta