Monthly Archives: September 2013

The post-modern movement as a whole is a rather confusing one. Like many other large, encompassing art movements (the Post-Impressionist movement comes to mind), there are different sects and groups and new techniques and ideas become popular throughout the years. … Continue reading →

In a post-modern dance issue of The Drama Review, Michael Kirby attempts to define [analytic] post-modern dance.  Sally Banes paraphrases his definition as “rejects musicality, meaning, characterization, mood and atmosphere; it uses costume, lighting, and objects in purely functional ways.”  … Continue reading →

Analytic Post-Modern Dance is an art form that centers dance on the individual. This liberates dance from the constraining standards that dictated earlier dance forms both physically and philosophically. This was done by making dance more about functionality. The individual … Continue reading →

Analytic post-modern dance is dance that can be done without music or props, aiming to show off the dance and movements without distractions.  This type of dance “rejected musicality, meaning, characterization, mood, and atmosphere” (Banes xiv).  It replaced those losses … Continue reading →

http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-09-21/dance/no-eacute-mie-lafrance-would-like-to-push-you-around/  Apollinaire Scherr’s dance critique, entitled “Noémie Lafrance Would Like To Push You Around” was a very candid and straightforward representation of his disappointment after seeing Noemie Lafrance’s new project, “The White Box”. Seemingly a very experienced critic, he didn’t … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/arts/dance/john-j-zullo-dance-raw-movement-delves-into-the-past.html?ref=dance Wendy Oliver says that a review is based on four components, description, analysis, Interpretation, and evaluation, with description being the support for the other three. In Gia Kourlas’s review of John J Zullo’s production, “All what THIS do HAS … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/arts/dance/john-j-zullo-dance-raw-movement-delves-into-the-past.html?ref=dance   “Total Recall: Reconstructing Memory, for Better or Worse”, a review by Gia Kourlas, gives a denouncing analysis of Raw Movements’ attempt at exploring the novel and familiarity of memory. Most, if not all, of the article was riddled … Continue reading →