My real problem with this show is the fact that the scriptwriters or whoever is responsible for the dialogue here, feel the need to make these dancers as vulgar as fraternity boys. I worked for many years in the dance world (in the 1970s) as a dance critic for newspapers in Chicago, San Francisco and Massachusetts, as a publicity director for a modern dance company in Chicago and as company manager for the San Francisco Moving Company, and as a writer I was very happy to work in a world of intelligent, refined people who were interested in literature, fine music, theater and all the other arts. I never heard the sort of low language that mars the sensibilities of this show. I never experienced such vulgarity and lowbrow mentality as displayed by many of these characters. Ballet and modern dancers are dedicated artists who work in an atmosphere that is on a higher plane than what is found in baseball or football locker rooms or army barracks. The creators of this show do a great disservice to the world of ballet and contribute only to the general dumbing down of America. I don't remember even Walter White in Breaking Bad delivering the sort of vulgar lines the artistic director of this ballet company spews out. What a shame. I will continue watching it for the beauty of the dance alone.
Review of Flesh and Bone
