Has September 11th saved American dance? TNR’s Jenifer Homans observes that post-modernist dance had become ingrown and vacant. “September 11 certainly has focused our minds, and some things, at least, are clearer than they were before. It is now possible to say, with a new conviction, that nostalgia, sentimentality, and postmodern narcissism make for inadequate and spiritually vacant art.” The New Republic 11/26/01