Sentences with phrase «narrative ostentation»

The Judson Dance Theatre was a collective of choreographers and performance artists — Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Philip Corner, David Gordon, Deborah Hay, Meredith Monk, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, and James Waring — who championed movements based on ordinary gestures and rejected the narrative ostentation of traditional dance.