No pity party: how 'victim art' dances with truth
Twenty years ago, a critic caused a storm by declaring a dance piece 'victim art'. Disabled dancers and choreographers who work with drug addicts and ex-prisoners reveal what has changed sinceIn December 1994, the dance critic Arlene Croce told her readers in the New Yorker that she wouldn't be attending Still/Here, a show in which Bill T Jones and his collaborators filmed people living with terminal illness. Croce c…