Today's Dance Edit: Letting go of live performance in 2020

May 27, 2020

"I get to see all my dancers' apartments, which I've never been to. I'm like, could you move that ugly lamp and that stuff over there?" —Mark Morris on the novelty of choreographing via Zoom

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Live performance producers across the country are giving up on 2020—and hoping that 2021 will mark a new beginning. (The New York Times)
While many theatergoers are ready to return for a 2021 reopening, they're worried fellow audience members may ignore social distancing rules. (The New York Times)
The BBC has commissioned a new take on Swan Lake—to be performed within the confines of the dancers' own bathtubs. (The Guardian)
A mother and daughter trying to keep their dance studio afloat share their struggle to secure government aid. (Vox)

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