Shane Wuerthner: Stories from a dance career... coming soon!
Shane Wuerther, a dancer I have always admired and with whom I became friends (oh, how I miss him dancing on the stage of the Vienna State Opera before he left Vienna for the San Francisco Ballet - and later the Queensland Ballet) will be our new guest in a series of short essays about a dancer’s life. I am looking forward to the reactions: it is not an everyday thing when a dancer writes about his dancer’s life. From a dancer’s point of view, in a dancer’s language to other dancers (which consist a great part of attitude’s readers) and dance lovers.
Shane has many qualities which I consider quite rare (and essential) because they go much further than the world of ballet - his interests involve so many things that it is hard to know where to start when telling about them. And that is, I am sure, why his dancing was always so captivating to audiences, so tridimensional - and that not only physically. Knowledge and comprehension mixed with sensibility and awareness (His Wronsky in Eifman’s version of “Anna Karenina” will somehow “haunt” me forever. Simply Brilliant!), what a combination.
This makes me think of a quote made by Jane Fonda some years ago - a quote that I use quite often. You will understand why when you read it:
“It is much more important to be interested than interesting”.
Think about that!
Starting on March 19th - and on a weekly basis: “Shane Wuerthner: Stories from a dance career… “
