The Clyde Fitch Report: An occupational hazard of lecturing on dance history is offering conjecture on dance’s future. (I asked Jennifer Homans to guess where the dance field was going in an interview when her book, Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet, came out in 2011 — she politely demurred and changed the subject.) After a speech at CU Boulder last week, I spoke with a few students about the future of dance in the U.S., and oddly enough for someone whose public persona vacillates between Lena Dunham and Dr. Doom, I found myself arguing that the future of time-based art in this country is potentially quite bright. I conjured up a kind of dance utopia, the place that comes into being once the field has successfully overcome the sundry political, technological and cultural conflicts presently besieging the sector.
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