May 30, 2007

Apollinaire Scherr to Discuss Future of Ballet Today on Local NPR Station

Dance Blogger and writer Apollinaire Scherr will be participating in radio interview this afternoon on NYC NPR affiliate. If you are in NYC, you can listen to program at 2:00 PM EDT on 93.9 FM. Or you can listen to live feed via the WNYC website.

Apollinaire's write-up:

Guess who's going to be on the radio today?

ME!!!!

With the esteemed Claudia La Rocco of the New York Times.

The details: Program is Soundcheck, on the NPR station in New York, WNYC, 93.9 on your FM dial. Time is 2 pm. "Today" is Wednesday, May 30. "Me" is Apollinaire, Foot hostess.

The topic under discussion is gigantic: the future of ballet, no less. And because this is dance, which no one wants to hear about for long, we'll be covering it in 15 minutes!

I'll post an mp3 here if I manage not to make a complete fool of myself.

WNYC write-up:

Final Bows and New Beginnings

The ballet world is in flux, to say the least. Audiences are dwindling. Companies are scrambling for new ideas. And, two major ballerinas are retiring. We talk with two longtime dance critics, Apollinaire Scherr and Claudia LaRocco, about what should be saved as ballet moves forward.

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