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Missing Misha: Businesswoman Now Leads ABT |
| Section: THE ARTS / DANCE |
| Author: Gary Parks |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 2,246 Words, 13,704 Characters |
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At American Ballet Theatre, ballet has always been a business. That's why hiring a businesswoman like Jane Hermann as executive director originally seemed like such a good idea. But now, as codirector, Hermann, whose job was intended to complement that of former artistic director Mikhail Baryshnikov, is making both business and artistic decisions. As ABT enters its second half-century, the company that likes to think of itself as the standard-bearer of American classicism is headed by a number cruncher, not an artist.
At the same time, Ballet Theatre finds itself searching for a new identity, as Hermann slowly but steadily erodes the aesthetic that Baryshnikov forged in his nine years at the helm. And in the harsh reality of arts funding at the beginning of the nineties, the company ...
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...n principally by its financial manager still be said to have an artistic mission?
Boards of directors and the administrators they hire were originally formed to help turn artists' visions into reality. If the art is designed to fit a budget, and not vice versa, will the public still be interested enough to attend? Isn't the business of dance to produce dancing first and business second?
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