On the occasion of seeing Anne Bogart’s SITI Company at Dance Theater Workshop, it occurred to me to post on my writing archive the feature story I wrote about her when she directed a student production of Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening (with music by the rock-and-roll songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller).
Among other things, she said, “Our generation doesn’t have anything to say because we’ve lost the ability to talk about things. I think I know why, too. It’s specifically political – it goes back to the McCarthy era, when artists were destroyed for being politically involved. We’ve been brought up thinking art and politics don’t mix, so what do we have to talk about? Ourselves.”
You can read the entire article online here.
“Our generation doesn’t have anything to say because we’ve lost the ability to talk about things. I think I know why, too. It’s specifically political – it goes back to the McCarthy era, when artists were destroyed for being politically involved. We’ve been brought up thinking art and politics don’t mix, so what do we have to talk about? Ourselves.
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