"Dance" at The New York Times

[carbro]

After a couple of months away from it, I thought I'd sashay over to The Times' dance forum last night, but searching the Times site quite thoroughly, couldn't find the forum.

I sent a message:

Comments: Have you eliminated it as part of your apparent campaign to stint on dance coverage in general?  What's up?

I'd appreciate a reply.  Thanks.

Carley

I'm happy to report, they responded very promptly:

Thank you for contacting us about the Dance forum.  Unfortunately,

participation in the forum was too low to keep it active.

I guess everyone's over here!

[BalletNut]

Well, considering the "publicity" we got from John Rockwell's article, I wouldn't be surprised.

[oberon]

Yup, Ballet Talk is the place to be!

[dirac]

The NYT's response also points up one of the disadvantages of the Internet: publications use discussion groups and the number of clicks on articles as gauges of the interest in a given topic. In the best of all possible worlds, those considerations would not be paramount (and, to give the Times credit, it's one of the few papers where the market is not all-powerful). So remember: click on those links! The papers are counting. And subscribe to paper editions. They're looking at that, too.