Dance Australia

Reviving Douglas

HE late choreographer Douglas Wright was a uniquely gifted artist. He was not only a superb dancer and gifted choreographer, he also drew like Cocteau and wrote like an angel. If he had not been born in New Zealand, so far away from the (so-called) centres of contemporary dance, he might have been world famous. On the other hand it is impossible to imagine such an original talent as his emerging from anywhere else. Like

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