A Meditation on Sports, Wacky Mascot and All
New York Times Review by Claudia La Rocco
“By now the line on Mr. Neumann is well established: He is the smart joker of dance. What’s not said as often is how deeply felt and deeply moving his work can be. “Feedforward” is no sneering gloss on dumb jocks; it’s an elegant, spatially adept meditation from someone who knows well the power and the absurdities of sport, as well as the primal nature of its connection to an unmistakably American sense of the world.”
smaxfield (October 29th, 2007 at 4:47 pm)
Interestingly, sports and art are each endeavors in which we are generally much more involved as children than adults. As children, many of us are encouraged in both, only to find heartbreakingly at some point in adolescence that we’ll probably never be a professional pitcher or a principal ballet dancer. I think this heartbreak contributes to our view as a culture that neither is a “serious” profession, and one could argue that the arts suffer more from this, as they have less commercial value, and strive harder to be taken seriously than sports, which are offered as entertainment, (at least, for those of us whose careers don’t hang on an Ace-serve percentage.) Read more at http://www.inquisitiveowl.wordpress.com.
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