Comments on: Dancing Urban Legends Revealed #3

By: Comic Book Legends Revealed #231 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:35:05 +0000

[...] which you can check out here, at legendsrevealed.com. I’d especially recommend you check out this installment of Dance Legends Revealed, which includes an interesting story involving Radiohead and Sigur [...]

By: Christopher Stansfield

Christopher Stansfield — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:01:45 +0000

Having seen “Movin’ Out” on Broadway with the original cast (as well as some of Tharp’s other pieces), I think it’s a mistake to use that as an example of Tharp’s choreography being “mainstream” or dumbed down for a mass audience. Yes, Billy Joel is about as proletariat a pop musician as you can find in the United States, but that had nothing to do with Tharp’s choreography. As you alluded to when discussing Merce Cunningham, modern dance choreographers have made it a point to show that the music is only a secondary consideration when it comes to their work. Using Joel’s music was a great gimmick to get people who would otherwise not go to dance performances to come to the show. Tharp is still considered an innovator as a (post) modern choreographer, mainly for her lack of orthodoxy when it comes to mixing dance styles (modern, ballet, etc) into unified pieces.

By: Basara

Basara — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:32:57 +0000

Why was I suddenly thinking of a lyric from that Billy Joel song, after reading that -

“You should never argue with a crazy man….”