Re: Sept. 10 letter to the editor.
Letter-writer Mario Acevedo wrote that “White Fields,” Lemon Sponge Cake Ballet’s recent piece, “did not address the causes for violent crime in this country … or the reasons for suicide …, but ladled the blame on guns and gun ownership.”
“White Fields” examines the world’s fragility and mortality through an innovative work performed by Bailey Harper and Robert Sher-Machherndl that raises awareness of personal and emotional effects of gun violence, its victims and each of us as witnesses. “White Fields” reflects on themes of alienation, isolation and connection through sensitively nuanced contemporary dance.
Acevedo is entitled to his opinion, albeit somewhat vitriolic. “White Fields” is not an attempt to address the causes of violence, reasons for suicide, nor blame gun ownership while satisfying the guilt of white people, which our press release made clear.
The Denver Post did not send a critic to the performance, and not having presented a professional piece, I trust its editors will consider publishing at least one of three pending New York reviews to offer readers a balanced view of what was in fact a powerful and thoughtful artistic response to a scourge of our time.
Jenifer Sher, Boulder
The writer is executive director of Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet.
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