**Apologies for the slight tardiness of this post.
TRUE: I’m attempting to cull quotes from my peers that
construct “true” in terms of brutal honest. The moments within these reviews that
seemed to unexpectedly reveal an honest statement about the reviewer that maybe
otherwise wouldn’t have been revealed. Things about ourselves that we discovered
or were forced to discover because of the experience of the dance performance.
Kelly: “Perhaps there is this joy I find in bodies that
celebrate how ugly/disturbing they can become rather than pleasing to the eye.”
Jess: “Every time I see feats of physical prowess and
athletic ability, I feel a kinesthetic response that I place somewhere in the
area of longing.”
Cody: “Rather than enjoying the dynamism of the dancers’
bodies, I found myself questioning how these specific movements related to the
overall narratives of the dances. Perhaps this reaction is merely
symptomatic of myself being pedantically cerebral and not being in tuned with
my emotions.”
Iris: “…there was a point in ‘Esplanade’ when one of the
dancers went running across the stage on a diagonal, with an enormous smile on
her face. I burst out laughing, and immediately covered my mouth, embarrassed.”
Jenna: “After the exercise of recognizing the dance alums
and current students of dance in the audience, I clearly felt my position in
the audience as one of interloper.”
MEANINGFUL: The quotes I’m pulling here focus less on the
reviewer and more on unexpected and thought-provoking elements of the dance
performance that emerged from the reviews. The “meaningful” works on a deeper level
of analysis than the surface of the dance performance itself allowed for – the
not-so-obvious trajectories of feeling and analysis that it prompted, thinking
beyond dance as simply the movement of bodies in space.
Courtney: “Decentering the significance of the dancers’
skills and physical virtuosity, Taylor choreographs a dance that is about
movement itself and the beauty of “everyday” movements.”
Courtney: “Perhaps one of the few viewers excluded from this
reconfiguration of “I could do that myself” is the entirely immobile one…”
Justin: “…moments of differentiated movements called body
ownership into question, as they were typified by the sharing of weight and
absolute trust in another’s physical strength.”
Sara: “There is no beauty much less propriety in the tumble
on the mattress without first witnessing the beauty in the walk for the bus.”
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