Victoria Wang
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Victoria Wang
“There are four things you can do: One, you can go into the community and compromise, play their thing. Number two, you can go in there and you an just go out on them. Number three, don’t go in there! And number four, you can go in there, understand what it is, and kind of build up and bring them into a thing. Or you can realise what they dig and
... See moreTalking about jazz, but this rings true for theatre and other arts when institutions talk about reaching new audiences or building community. What is the approach to take? Graves advocates for respecting the audience and teaching them/exposing them to new things. Incrementalism in taste building, but also this idea of “camouflage” I love in its intentional operation that is not catering to the masses but sneaking in the revolutionary…