Annual Report LRP 2007 - Rheinland Pfalz Bank

“THE WORLD IN 50 YEARS FROM NOW” – LRP 2007
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What future do you envisage for your troupe?
A ballet and dance troupe very much acts in, and
responds to, its time. This makes this art so fragile
and fleeting and at the same time so ephemeral and
transient. I do not foresee a fixed future for my
troupe even though this does not mean that there
is no future. But the very concept of future in the
sense of a clearly envisaged outcome runs against
everything that the art of ballet and dance is all
about.
What can our bank do for “cultural workers” like
you? Money can protect a talent and keep an artist
from becoming opportunist and commercialized.
This does not necessarily have to be so, but I would
consider this to be true from my own point of view
and in light of my own personal standards. This is
why I believe it is important to give a lot of thought
to what should be funded, to the amount of such
funding and to the selection of the funding recipients!