Michael Novak is the artistic director of the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Before joining us for this week’s Zócalo/The Music Center conversation, “How Is Art A Weapon in War?,” presented at Jerry Moss Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, he spoke to us in the green room about Phantom of the Opera, what keeps him going, and the borrowed technique of pausing.
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