Dance on the web… where I find dance-related content on the web and slip in my own two cents about it…
- I love this article about Alvin Ailey’s street-level studio. I’ve walked by it many times on visits to New York but never had the pleasure of seeing it in use. I love that there is a bench for spectators and that a large crowd had gathered by the end of the class, enjoying the show. Thanks to DA…NCE for bringing this to my attention.
- A dancer’s sexuality… does it matter? Does it play a part in the way a dancer dances or in their image? Swan Lake Samba Girl discusses. Personally, I think it depends on the genre of dance. I find that homophobia is totally rampant in salsa. I’ve heard so many instructors make ignorant jokes or comments about the way someone moves or in reference to a pairing. I don’t see sexuality as relevant at all in social dancing. A dance is a dance is a dance is a dance, whether it is a man dancing with a woman, a woman dancing with a woman, or a man dancing with a man. That is not to say that you can’t play with sexuality and identity in one’s choreography…but does the sexuality of the dancer matter? I think not.
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July 23, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Gray
“sexuality of the dance” – that phrase is just making my brain short circuit. I’m not sure if you’re talking about inherent sexual roles (such as male lead/female follow) or the sexuality inherent in the way you are dancing.
Coming from contact improv, the ability to subsume sexual roles in the service of the dance is one of the best things about it, I’ve found. And I agree with you about social dancing – a dance, even an intense full -body milonga, is just a dance, it’s not a proposal.
Except, perhaps, when it’s more…