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'Chronicle' Should Have Given Credit
RECEIVED Fri., Feb. 3, 2006
Dear Editor,
On page 32 in the Jan. 27 Chronicle, you posted a picture of some dancers from the FronteraFest's Dance Carousel ["Of Cactuses, Crickets, and Cars," Arts]. I don't know if maybe you forgot this, but you didn't mention any of the ladies’ names that were photographed in your article. You chose to display this choreographer's artistic creation, and didn't even give her or her dancers credit for it. I saw the performance pictured and it was amazing. I think you owe the choreographer and her dancers some credit. Her name was Mandie Pitre, and her dancers were Cybil G. and Amanda Moulder.
On page 32 in the Jan. 27 Chronicle, you posted a picture of some dancers from the FronteraFest's Dance Carousel ["Of Cactuses, Crickets, and Cars," Arts]. I don't know if maybe you forgot this, but you didn't mention any of the ladies’ names that were photographed in your article. You chose to display this choreographer's artistic creation, and didn't even give her or her dancers credit for it. I saw the performance pictured and it was amazing. I think you owe the choreographer and her dancers some credit. Her name was Mandie Pitre, and her dancers were Cybil G. and Amanda Moulder.
Christiana Baker
[Arts Editor Robert Faires replies: No disrespect to Ms. Pitre, Ms. G, or Ms. Moulder was intended by the absence of their names on the photograph you reference, just as none was intended to the actors in Cricket Radio, Among the Sand and Smog, The Most Beautiful Lullaby Your Ever Saw, and You're No One's Nothing Special, all of whom were pictured in the same feature without credit, or for that matter, any of the artists in photographs that appeared beside reviews anywhere in the paper. The Chronicle was simply following a general policy that we employ with photos that run alongside reviews or recommendeds in the Arts, Film, and Music listings, identifying the show by title or the act by name rather than by individuals pictured.]