Funny I should find on Facebook this little quiz (designed partly by illustrious Stuttgart danseur / Winger contributor Evan McKie 🙂 ) in light of my earlier Where is Cranko in the U.S. rant. Take the quiz! It’s fun, and gorgeously designed. I got Katharina in Taming of the Shrew. I guess I can kind of see that :S …
WHY NOT MORE JOHN CRANKO IN THE US?
My friend, Mika, who is half Austrian, half Japanese and who spends a significant amount of time abroad was asking me the other day why I thought there wasn’t much of John Cranko’s work performed here when his ballets are so popular in Europe. I didn’t know. But I do know from some of Evan and Patricio’s Winger posts that his ballets are widely performed elsewhere, including obviously Chile. I was intrigued