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Just Doing It: Lester Horton's Grandchildren |
| Section: THE ARTS / DANCE |
| Author: Maya Wallach |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1994 |
| Size: 2,022 Words, 12,446 Characters |
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From Horton's early dance theater to Alvin Ailey's multiethnic company to Los Angeles' Footprints troupe today, a proud American Modern Dance tradition lives on.
Lester Horton didn't care that his name was never a household word. He didn't care that his theater-the first permanent theater for dance in America-was on the wrong coast, located in Los Angeles instead of New York. Nor did he care-and this was in the 1930s and '40s-about the race, class, sexual orientation, or politics of his dancers. Horton didn't have time for societally imposed conventions and limitations. He was too busy creating a new form of dance: inventive, emotional, accessible, powerful dance theater.
Scant Traces
Only a scant handful of his hundreds of choreographies outlasted his death forty years ago...
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...r Horton would be proud.
Horton and Ailey always said that dance should be accessible. It should speak to young people. To do that, it must catch their rhythms and speak their language. And this-above all elseis where Footprints is so successful. Never mind tradition or expectation. Like Horton and Ailey before them, they are living the maxim: Choose what you want to do and "Just do it!
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