The line between performance and entertainment has blurred considerably in the last few years. Riverdance, Matthew Bourne’s ‘Swan Lake’ and most notably the teaming of the experimentalist Julie Taymor with Disney to produce Broadway’s ‘Lion King’ have forged significant links between art and commerce. Choreographer Elizabeth Streb, herself a hybrid of working class roots and MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’ credentials, cites Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey, Cirque du Soleil, Stomp, ‘Bring In da Noise, Bring In da Funk’ and Zingaro as precedents. – New York Times