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March 7, 1999
Dancing for Apollo
 "I
dreamed of dancing as a child," says out dancer and choreographer
Richard Daniels. "But I thought a good Midwestern Jewish boy didn't
go to dance class." Being a good boy hasn't been a priority for some
time now, but Daniels, 54, still seems haunted by youth—in the person
of Apollo, the eternally youthful god of creativity. For Telling Tales,
his program running September 29 to October 2 at the Danspace Project
in New York City, Daniels boldly created a new modern dance to Stravinsky's
"Apollo," first written for ballet giant George Balanchine.
Daniels's "Apollo and the Muses" will be accompanied by a little-known
piano version of the Stravinsky score performed by out composer-pianist
Nurit Tilles. The evening also offers music by gay composer Gerald Busby.
"Dance is how I express my experience of living through HIV,"
says Daniels, who estimates that he's been positive since the early 1980s.
"My Apollo is about creativity coming later in life—I think
that's my story."
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