“We’re taught to leave everything at the door of the studio—the personal stays outside,” dancer/choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith is quoted in this issue‘s double portrait of her and her partner Or Schraiber, featured in our People section. Smith however prefers to leave the studio door open, “so there’s a flow between who you are as an artist and who you are as a person.”
In this spirit, starting with this issue, we invite artists, curators, and other key figures in dance to bridge the gap between their professional and private personae by completing a questionnaire to reveal some of their more personal feelings, views and preferences. What drives them nuts? What gets their imagination going? First to “spill the beans” is dancer, choreographer and ballet director Goyo Montero.
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