Sugary Deals, Dissolving Dance Troupes and the Riddle of Accessibility

FROM THE GREEN ROOM: Dance/USA's e-Journal: One morning in July, shortly after the closing of the exhibition “A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby” at the Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I was listening to WBAI, where the host, Michael G. Haskins, had invited listeners to phone-in their reactions to the art. The monumental statue, 35-feet tall and long enough to fill a warehouse, depicted a woman crouching on all fours and clothed only in the headscarf of a plantation worker. While this woman’s features pointed to her origins in Africa she was covered in sugar and blindingly white, reflecting the history of the industry in which she labored.