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The language of dance includes a vocabulary that is foreign to most audience members. The communication between choreographers and dancers translates into motions that are written on the air and disappear – hopefully thrilling the audience but confounding our attempts to verbalize what was just seen, reducing us to comments like “I really liked it!” and “What was that about?”

This blog is an attempt, however inadequate, to translate this most ephemeral of the arts into a narrative that will survive the moment. An attempt – by an outsider, someone not in the dance community, to find words that can describe that experience, analyze and attempt to make sense of what was seen, and express the ideas and emotions transmitted by this magical amalgam of motion and music.

Comments may be left on this page or at the bottom of any review. They are welcome and will help inform the work. Complaints should be directed to Angela Rosenkrans at Scottsdale Community College. It was her encouragement, however well intentioned, that is entirely responsible for whatever this is

 

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I used to think that I would consider the dance performances that I saw, whether separately or presented together in an evening, and then select the best ones to review – all with no particular criteria to do so. Perhaps it has occasionally worked out that way, but...

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