THTR1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Joan Acocella, Trisha Brown, Dance Troupe
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This week we had two articles in mhdc to read; imagining dance, and five. Premises for a culturally sensitive approach to dance, and overall, a lot of the descriptions in both articles went over my head. I understood the themes that the articles were trying to express, however; the authors of each article continually refer to terms that, as an untrained and inexperienced dancer, i have absolutely no idea what they are. Dance the author, joan acocella, refers to the ballet, a midsummer night"s dream, as if the reader should have already seen it twenty times. Just in case, our memory is a bit hazy, she does explain the dance, in detail, using phrases like, second position on point, and performs one soft beat with her feet . I have absolutely no idea what those phrases mean, so instead of having a clear picture of what was going on, i just glazed over the words and read on.
