Selected critical thinking from scholars, students, bloggers, audiences and (potentially) you.
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"High Critics/Low Arts" - written by Carol Martin
"Comfort's work raises crucial issues. Is the breakdown between "high" and "low"
in performance an actual break or merely an appropriation of one form by another?
The question is important because it addresses..." View Google Books browser below to read.
Carol Martin is an Associate Professor of Drama at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
and currently a Senior Fullbright Specialist. Martin's essays and interviews have appeared in
numerous anthologies, academic journals in the U.S. and abroad and The New York Times.
Her books include: The Dramaturgy of th Real on the World Stage, A Sourcebook of
Feminist Theatre: On and Beyond the Stage, and Dance Marathons:
Performing America Culture of the late 1920's and 1930's.
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"Jane Comfort's America"- written by Suzanne Carbonneau
"Comfort’s recent work finds the political in the personal, as it focuses on how
social attitudes and conditions create the contexts for our lives..." Click here to download PDF
Suzanne Carbonneau is a critic, essayist, and historian whose writing has appeared in The
Washington Post, the New York Times, and other publications. She is Director of the NEA Arts
Journalism Institute in Dance, and she is Critic-in-Residence at the American Dance Festival.
Carbonneau is Scholar in-Residence at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and the Bates Dance
Festival and she lectures and writes for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Carbonneau holds a Ph.D. from New York University.
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"Unraveling the Postmodern Spiral"- written by Nadia Losonsky
"From only one place of interest - the desire to embrace the unknown - postmodern
dance has come to be a way to reflect people’s political stances, cultural, racial, and gender identities, as well as communicate the feelings of that which cannot be verbalized: touch,
breath, speed, disorientation. Jane Comfort achieves this through her expert
use of text and multiple theatrical devices..." Click here to download PDF
Nadia Losonsky holds a BA in Dance from Texas Woman's University. During her time at TWU,
she received the Excellence in Research and Writing in Dance Scholarship and the
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