The Montgomery County-Radford City-Floyd County Branch of the NAACP held its 47th Freedom Fund Banquet on Sept. 23 in the ballroom of the Highlander Hotel and Conference Center at Radford
Organizer and activist Leslie Mac on how this past weekend s mass shooting massacre in Buffalo, New York, is just the latest in a long line of violence and harm to the Black people of the city.
Photo: Valerie Robin and Fabrice Calmels in Gerald Arpino s
Light Rain. Photograph by and courtesy of Herbert Migdoll.
What makes a ballet a classic? Is it earning a permanent place in the history books, or is it being worthy of the Herculean investment of hours in the studio, the tireless work of the dancers and coaches, the resources, media and marketing machine required to bring it to life, or both? Who decides, and more importantly, what goes into that calculus? Today the re-evaluation of the Western theatrical dance canon continues as ballet and modern dance are challenged in the academy.[1] In concert dance, these questions are a matter of survival: the performed repertory consists mostly of “classics” and “new work,” and everything else tends to disappear. So, the question of what makes a dance a classic, i.e.,