may 8: Ms. Graham, meet Ms. Acocella. Joan, this is Martha.
God forbid anyone should try to contextualize Martha Graham's aesthetic. You might just send Joan Acocella into a tizzy.
Well, if modern dance hadn't been so exclusive and impenatrable in the first place, it wouldn't seem so totally irrelevant now and the audiance would not need to be introduced to it so thoroughly . I find Acocella's description of the program as "hand holding" a particularly condescending and counterproductive way of talking about this.
OK, so this post makes no sense either. Read Acocella's Happy Face, read me complaining about her "let's pretend it's just movement and bodies" approach to dance elsewhere and
elsewhere.
I mean, that's not to say the company did a good job, but god knows, its worth a shot.
Categories: newyorker, material, kinesthetic, anger/rage
Well, if modern dance hadn't been so exclusive and impenatrable in the first place, it wouldn't seem so totally irrelevant now and the audiance would not need to be introduced to it so thoroughly . I find Acocella's description of the program as "hand holding" a particularly condescending and counterproductive way of talking about this.
OK, so this post makes no sense either. Read Acocella's Happy Face, read me complaining about her "let's pretend it's just movement and bodies" approach to dance elsewhere and
elsewhere.
I mean, that's not to say the company did a good job, but god knows, its worth a shot.
Categories: newyorker, material, kinesthetic, anger/rage
posted by zoe p. at 5:53 PM
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What really drive me crazy is when she then anachronistically applies her enthusiasm for abstract form in modern dance back onto classical ballet. Which, it seems to me, had a different relationship to, um, narrative, history and, yes, movement and bodies.
Your thoughts on a kind of split between the muscular and the theoretical are really interesting too . . .
And even though I know a lot of people dislike the qualifier "contemporary" for ANYTHING, dance included, I like to use it whenever possible to mark a break with things that might be understood as modern . . . and things that are, um, not? even/because it is a totally temporary designation.
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