Step in time: how to save the legacy of dance from being lost in history
While Richard Alston's company hang up their dance shoes, archivists and choreographers are grasping at ways to immortalise an inherently slippery art form Earlier this month, Richard Alston's dance company performed their final shows after more than 25 years. It was a celebratory occasion " and the end of an era. Alston will continue choreographing independently, but with his company he created a significant body of…