Reggie Wilson’s Live Arts
By Carrie Stern
I know, I know, critical writing is supposed to be somehow neutral. But let’s be real, if you’ve lived a life, how likely is it that you can truly be unbiased?
The critical writer hopes tobe balanced, and fair, certainly, but to be dispassionate is not in my powers. I can’t help it; some art speaks to me in ways that have nothing to do with my analytical self. Sometimes it’s visceral, sometimes it’s ideas or physical concepts, but whatever it is, it’s personal. And so it is for me with dances by choreographer Reggie Wilson.