Arts Circuit News Today

The Princeton University Ballet, a student-run ballet company, has gone full woke. So has Princetons EDI in the Arts Circuit, which apparently is tied to the Universitys administration. Responding to my first post on the subject, a friend called my attention to this passage from Kurt Vonnegut’s 1961 short story “Harris Bergeron.”: THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They werent only equal before God and the law.

In Part One of this series, I reported on the plan of student leaders of the Princeton University Ballet to (among other things) decolonize their practice of ballet, deemphasize technique, and exclude from membership Princeton ballet enthusiasts who are unwilling to engage in their brand of activism. In Part II, I want to consider Princetons stance on these matters. As I understand it, the EDI in the Arts Circuit is