Coyote Chases Artistic Director Away
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Benkoczy realized he didn’t have the full support of the ATC board at a board meeting last week. “Apparently, the artistic direction of this year’s event was inconsistent with whatever the goals of the current board were,” he says. Several sources present at the meeting, where a newly reconstituted 12-person ATC board discussed the organization’s bylaws and the structure of the 1995 festival, say the group was moving to limit Benkoczy’s artistic control to the weekend festival, while trying to retain control of the year-round organization it hopes will grow out of the event. Also several out-of-town artists Benkoczy wished to place on an advisory board were dropped from that list. They included ballet dan-cer Susan Jaffe and author/photographer Christopher Makos from New York and Canadian dancer Rex Harrington. Mairone said one reason Benkoczy’s candidates were rejected was their lack of close ties to the Wicker Park and Bucktown arts community.
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