New book of Clement Crisp's reviews
Received in a long email from the Royal Opera House (I've omitted contact details to be on the safe side):
Clement Crisp Reviews: Sixty Years of Dance
The International Dance Writing Foundation is supporting the publication of a book of Clement Crisp’s reviews. Covering six decades they have selected one hundred and sixty reviews from Clement Crisp’s own scrapbooks offering a remarkable insight into the world of dance. Published later this spring, the book is a remi
Whilst not wishing to halt the stream of encomia on the work of Messrs Crips and (now) Dowler, are alternative opinions and aesthetics to be denigrated as a consequence? I like what I like and don't what I don't, regardless of a critic's view - and I'd imagine I'm not entirely alone in that. At a guess, the history of theatre and music is full of first-night views that many would laugh at now, indeed I have a book full of them. But all of that said, I did often enjoy Mr Crisp's de haut en bas
