patsy

22 years old

Cleveland, OH

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I'm a 20-year-old junior at CWRU. At the moment my mission is to watch every interesting dance video I can get my hands on. Inter-library loans have given me access to the entirety of north east Ohio, but I am severely limited by which schools allow their videos to be shipped out... Regardless, I'm still watching and I'm blogging my thoughts about what I've been seeing in an informal, but somewhat organized electronic format. Yeah. That's, basically, where I'm at. If your into it, awesome.

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Apr 10, 2008

More Merce Cunningham

Merce Cunningham's piece Rainforest was choreographed in 1968. The poor quality of the old video is a trade off for the privilege of actually seeing Cunningham himself dance. The set (giant, Mylar pillows filled with helium) were from an Andy Warhol instillation …

Martha Graham Primitive Mysteries

Primitive Mysteries really struck me more than any other Graham piece. The work is so early, made in 1931 just two years after her poignant, yet honestly elementary, Heretic. Primitive Mysteries in comparison shows unbelievable maturity and development over such a short …

Dancing on the edge... from the archives of the American Dance Festival

Semi-coherent thoughts listed by peice:

Paul Taylor's Cloven Kingdom (1991)
So un-Taylor style (beautiful Taylor runs and high gorgeous extensions). This piece had almost no turnout, no extensions, and no port de bras. The movements seemed primitive, ceremonially …

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