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Sunday Feature: After a Dancemaker Dies

Series 1, episode 0

Frances Byrnes presents a documentary asking whether modern dances can or should survive the deaths of their makers. Dance is an art which exists only in live performance, so when great choreographers such as Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch die, should their work be carried on? Figures in the dance world including Robert Swinston, Josephine Endicott and Dominique Mercy discuss the challenges to keeping dance alive, neither dated nor overly altered. Or should the transience of the art form be respected - should the dance die with its maker?