This week, Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith decided to interview themselves for the blog. This duo does not take the traditional approach to their dancing, and the same goes with their interview style.
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In a recent blog post about the creation of Serenade/The Proposition drawn from a lecture delivered at at the NY Historical Society, Bill T. Jones remarks, “a dance theater work about Mr. Lincoln as I conceive it comes with some obstacles. They might be roughly delineated by these two familiar categories: form and content. Formally, I remain suspicious of the biopic narrative and yet, if there was ever an individual and an era, which cried out for a narrative it is this man and that time. Over the last 25 years of creation I have often used elements of narrative that have - because of my bias - resulted in what I call quasi-narrative. An important notion I have relied on in the past and will certainly rely on again is that each piece and its various parts “suggests” rather than illustrates. In other words I set out to suggest a personality, to suggest a story, to suggest a world.”
Read the complete blog entry on the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company website.
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See Catherine Gallant/DANCE, performing this week at Joyce SoHo, in "Isadora takes the train," inspired by Isadora Duncan. Watch it now!Â
