Room to move: why New York's Chelsea Hotel is being immortalised in dance by Judith Mackrell

The Chelsea Hotel has been woven into New York's bohemian fabric for more than a century, and now a new dance piece hymns the legend. Here its makers explain whyPatti Smith described it as "a dolls' house in the Twilight Zone"; Sid Vicious killed Nancy Spungen in one of its rooms; Dylan Thomas drank himself to death there; and Thomas Wolfe, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac were also among its residen…

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