PORTRAIT OF A MODERN DANCE FAN: A Profile of Doug Post

Doug Post with his wife Anne

The gentle, white-haired man walks into my living room and immediately starts changing into a new t-shirt. He tells me he’s preparing for our interview. The t-shirt says, “Dance is not a matter of life or death. It’s much more important than that.”

Doug Post is not a dancer, choreographer, producer, curator, or critic. He is an audience member who attends five or six New York City modern dance performances a week. He volunteers, ushers, and finds member discounts, all so that he can see more. In a time of shrinking newspaper coverage and ever shrinking budgets, Doug Post is a human, loving champion of dance....
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