By Nadine Matthews At the height of the AIDS epidemic, two beloved members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company passed away from the deadly virus in the space of just two years. Arnie Zane, the dance company’s co-founder, died in 1988 and Demian Acquavella, a uniquely spirited dancer, in 1990. In early 1989, the
By Deborah Jones In 1964, social critic and academic Donald Horne wrote a book about Australia called The Lucky Country, a term he did not intend as a compliment. It was more dumb luck than anything more elevated that enabled the nation’s success, he argued. The phrase, however, caught on here and is used by
By Michael Crabb The pandemic has presented dance artists everywhere with financial and creative challenges that no amount of resilience can easily overcome. It presents an existential threat that, even with the arrival of vaccines, shows no sign of vanishing any time soon. If you can’t make dances and perform them for audiences, what in