Judson Dance Theater Analysis
The first time I watched Yvonne Rainer’s choreography, I could not describe how I felt; in the video, she just continues a series of listless movements, while her limbs do not seem to make harmony with each other. It’s like someone commands her to take weird poses constantly, then she follows the orders indifferently. It seriously made me think about what a dance is.
According to Sally Bane’s writing on the Judson Dance Theater, it might be that Labanotation inspired Rainer and her classmates. As it enabled to record body motion, movement itself became a dance method, like composers write notes on a score. It was a fresh shock to me. While acknowledging that music is both verbal and written language, I have never thought about dance as a
According to Sally Bane’s writing on the Judson Dance Theater, it might be that Labanotation inspired Rainer and her classmates. As it enabled to record body motion, movement itself became a dance method, like composers write notes on a score. It was a fresh shock to me. While acknowledging that music is both verbal and written language, I have never thought about dance as a