Courtney on “Esplanade”: These informal movements urge the
question “Is walking dance?” and hint at what Reason and Reynolds call the
“clichéd response to modern art, ‘I could do that myself’” (“Kinesthesia,
Empathy, and Related Pleasures,” 59).
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. As a
retrospective, I was happy to begin with Taylor and ponder the journey from
formalism to expression, youth to age, public to private.
My note: I hadn't considered the importance of the walking prior to reading these two responses, but Courtney and Sara's idea rang completely true. They gave me an "Of course! It was about walking! Why didn't I get that?" moment.
