Dancing for the King

By Marc Fenigstein - January 22, 2009

Tonight’s Design Mind event in San Francisco generated a flood of thoughts on several topics. The thread that struck me most profoundly was the question of preserving artistic vision especially  within the context of group collaboration.

Alonzo King (Lines Ballet Company) shared how dance, ballet specifically, had become rigid. It had become rote, as it became less about personal expression or experience and more about professional entertainment. It had become “dancing for the king” not dancing for oneself, and some thing was lost.

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