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Attitudes.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUN-04 		Format: Online - approximately 827 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Attitudes.(dansicals)

Article Excerpt
WHAT'S wrong with the word "dansical"? Too obvious, perhaps? Words, words, words. The naming of things is a task found essential even by Adam in the Garden of Eden. As my friend and sometime mentor Edwin Denby once remarked to me, one of the difficulties of writing about dance is the lack of a generally accepted aesthetic vocabulary. I suppose my own generation of dance writers has contributed certain words and phrases that make the discussion of dance a little easier. I think I popularized the use of the phrase "dance image"--more concrete but less poetic than Arlene Croce's "afterimage'--although the phrase had been introduced a little earlier by the late British dance critic Fernau Hall. I am also pretty, sure I first...

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