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FEB 2012

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Dance

That's All She Wrote Edited

by Claudia La Rocco

Dance

This time last year, I was writing an introductory editor’s note to this section.

Feminist Killjoys

by Christine Shan Shan Hou

Dance

“What would it look like if people with female bodies enjoyed unlimited possibilities for transformation?” Lee provocatively asks in the program notes. The stage is carefully prepared for such transformations: A pristine, white floor serves as a blank slate, while a glowing three-dimensional screen suspended above offers endless possibilities for décor.

Adventures In Realness

by Siobhan Burke

Dance

He is tall and gangly, maybe 50 years old. But he does what he does with the unselfconsciousness, the unpremeditated-ness, the unapologetic-ness, of a child. That quality you fear you’ve lost and will spend your whole adulthood trying to recover: He has it.

 

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