Reimagining the Brown Body
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Published:2021-09
Issue:3
Volume:65
Page:78-90
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ISSN:1054-2043
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Container-title:TDR: The Drama Review
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language:en
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Short-container-title:TDR: Drama Rev
Abstract
William Forsythe’s screendance Alignigung (2016) depicts two male dancers, one fair- and the other brown-skinned, in hyperflexible and intimate configurations that vacillate between object and human. Alignigung engages with an egalitarian ethos along the same lines as contact improvisation but further demonstrates an alternative masculinity through movement qualities by reimagining the stereotypical brown body.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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