Her interest in New York City street and
social dance forms led her to produce NO SUCH THING AS NEUTRAL, a symposium sponsored by the Barnard Center for Research on Women that examined the contributions of Flex and Lite Feet to the contemporary dance landscape.
Not exact matches
A new
form of «
social fitness,» the
Dance Mile is stopping in several cities, and Boston's event is tomorrow.
But in our culture, because of its prevalence as a
form of
social expression,
dancing to create a meditative state is under - represented.
Aboriginal culture did not have a written language, instead their laws, stories and
social behaviour is passed on in the
form of song,
dance and art.
Like the complicated sequences and simultaneity of Cunningham's
dances where some dancers were engaged in plays of force with each other and some were acting in solo moments, «Vertical Intersection Blue» acts as a solitary
form and «Folded Cross, Yellow - Gold» appears to be hunched, reflective, and yet
social.
Her work engages connected themes of change and community, and in the early» 00s, this often took the
form of dinner parties (organized with her sister and performance artist Marianne Vitale),
dance marathons, and
social invasions, among other carnivalesque happenings.
If
Dancing around the Bride has any readymade takeaway, it might be that a fertile community of artistic influence is at its best when it
forms organically around shared interests and
social contexts, providing the outcomes of such parties are left to chance.