McGregor "Audiences just want a kind of event".

[Katharine Kanter]

"50 Questions With Wayne McGregor

As this year’s Venice Biennale Danza kicks off – where the legendary choreographer serves as director – AnOther pokes the radically creative mind of Wayne McGregor


https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/15016/50-questions-with-wayne-mcgregor


9. Do you feel there is still a split in appreciation between contemporary and classical?

There are always going to be ballet snobs with certain kinds of expertise and expectation. My experience of audiences is that they just want a kind of event. It doesn’t really matter what it is as long as they’re provoked and engaged and there’s human connection and empathy."

Yup.

The second photograph illustrating this delightful piece with "Brought to you by National Cash Register" Wayne McGrgor, shews individuals who would appear to be .... whatever.

But tells all of the "kind of event" that Marina Abramovic's sponsors at the Biennale would doubtless enoy.

The Biennale's reputation for probity is "intact" as a French ex-Minister recently stated.

https://www.moma.org/audio/playlist/243/3126


I leave you to do your own research on these people, and whose agenda they serve.