By Gay Morris
Relocating phrases offers a right away line into the main urgent matters in modern dance scholarship, in addition to insights into ways that dance contributes to and creates tradition. rather than representing a unmarried perspective, the essays during this quantity replicate various views and signify the debates swirling inside dance. The members confront simple questions of definition and interpretation inside dance stories, whereas while analyzing broader concerns, akin to the physique, gender, category, race, nationalism and cross-cultural alternate. particular essays deal with such themes because the black male physique in dance, gender and subversions within the dances of Mark Morris, race and nationalism in Martha Graham's 'American Document', and the historical past of oriental dance.
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In more playful dances, like Esplanade, Cloven Kingdom, and Aureole, lineups produce follow-the-leader games, celebratory explosions of jumping, panoramic backdrops for the passage of eccentric comrades. The lineup often suggests the parade, one of several American festive rituals that are dear to Taylor’s heart. In Speaking in Tongues, the lineup means conformity, and, for the tight-minded community of this dance, snobbery or bigotry toward those who don’t conform. Above all, for Taylor, lineups signify the illusory security of being with other people like oneself, people who know what is right and how to behave, and who understand each other completely.
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