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RAZZMATAZZ.(dance production)

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What would our American dance producers do without European goods to sell? Give up, probably. At series like bam's Next Wave Festival and the Lincoln Center Festival, a good seat usually costs fifty dollars or more. At such prices, you need to attract more than the art crowd. You have to bring in the burghers, and what they want to see on a Saturday night is a substantial show, something with costumes and sets and a story, something perhaps like Broadway or the opera, which is where they would be if they weren't at bam. From most American dance you won't get that. At the current rate of arts funding in this country, our companies can barely afford leotards. But money is ...

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