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The Offending Classic: On the Intolerable in Dance
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2020-11Registro en:
Vallejos, Juan Ignacio; The Offending Classic: On the Intolerable in Dance; University of Massachusetts; The Massachusetts Review; 11-2020; 1-4
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Vallejos, Juan Ignacio
Resumen
I recently saw Angelin Preljocaj’s Rite of Spring (2001) on film. This was the latest of many ballets staged by the French choreographer from the repertoire of the Ballets Russes. Earlier Preljocaj had offered the world his Le Spectre de la Rose, L’Oiseau de Feu, and Les Noces. Though considered a choreographer of contemporary dance, most dance critics agree that Preljocaj’s works are indebted to the tradition of classical ballet and to neoclassical techniques. In his inventive version of Rite of Spring, the choreography is structured in particular around the idea of a primitive energy related to sex and violence...