I saw this T-shirt at a street fair in Cambridge, MA, last weekend–part of the first annual Dance For World Community Festival. The festival was organized by the Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre and is a project dedicated to expanding the role of dance in local communities. Along with all the tasty food, the festival featured lots of dance groups–from African dance to modern to ballet–and free classes in many dance forms.
I felt like I was stepping into the past, into an era when street theater ruled and community involvement in the arts mattered. I was also stepping into my own past, when I was a modern dancer rehearsing and performing in Cambridge and then New York.
Write about something that really mattered once and doesn’t anymore.
