The Black Dancing Body: An interview with Sean Curran
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According to Sean Curran, Bill T. Jones has a very inventive, deeply personal, and unique way of moving, because he didn't come up through the sort of modern dance training sought by many African-American dancers. He feels that trying to do Bill's work was a part of a great challenge and states that imitating Bill's movement is a difficult task.
Publication Name: Dance Research Journal
Subject: Arts, visual and performing
ISSN: 0149-7677
Year: 2003
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Somatic authority and the myth of the ideal body in dance education
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An analysis is presented of the dance institutions' implied ideal of a thin, strong body and its often detrimental effect on female dancers. Topics include a theoretical background for the study, possible ethical research issues, and analysis of the dance student-teacher relationship.
Publication Name: Dance Research Journal
Subject: Arts, visual and performing
ISSN: 0149-7677
Year: 1999
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Taking up space: an interview with Bio of TATS CRU, Inc.
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Bio, a thirty-four year old writer from Brunx, feels that Graffiti is a product and victim of mainstream social systems. Only Graffiti marks the extension of identity on the material world.
Publication Name: Dance Research Journal
Subject: Arts, visual and performing
ISSN: 0149-7677
Year: 2001
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