Nothing Personal
It's called show business, not show fun.
Ahahahahaha, La Sacre du Printemps. Anything that pisses off snobby audience members is a friend of mine. — Agreed.
Yes! I so desperately want to excite (code for “piss off”? yeah probably) an audience in this way again. This period, the time when The Ballets Russes dominated the avant-garde of dance, was a golden age for ballet and I think it is no coincidence that it started off with these types of reactions. If only I could figure out how to get it back to that kind of cultural relevance …
Alas no matter what kind of artist I may be, I know myself well enough to suspect that genius I am not. And that’s where that kind of thing comes from. Stravinsky. Diaghilev. Balanchine. Fokine. Fonteyn. Nureyev. Kirstein. Robbins. Ashton. Tudor. No matter how many principal roles I may get to dance, I’m really just in the corps where the history of art is concerned, and I have to say, I feel pretty damn lucky to be there.
