Artist, Curator and Artistic Director of UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, Kristy Edmunds has headed the Melbourne Festival in Australia and the Park Avenue Armory in New York. Coghlan: Why’s it important that art be potent, that it push the bounds of artistic expression? It may be three years before an artist’s work is on our stage. What's interesting is, in those three years — from funding, rehearsals, creative development, cutting sections, adding new sections, a dancer breaks an ankle, recasting, etc. Long before we needed that symphony, he or she started to compose it, and it lands in culture and in time usefully.

Source: Forbes August 27, 2017 22:30 UTC