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WRITING & PERFORMANCE The evolution of text in performance takes many forms in the last half century: as dramatic literature, as fragment, as archive, as intertext, as poetry. While contemporary transformations in theatre have moved increasingly away from staging new plays in favor of collage-based work, performance in the visual arts has embraced language as a narrative mode, and dance has become both more theatrical and more text-oriented. What are the issues that influence your thinking about writing and performance? How are they reflected in your process and the kind of work you do? JULIETTE MAPP In my dancing and choreography I seek a clarity of intention, even when I do not know exactly what my intention is. I hope that by stripping away layers of effort and tension in my body, and inside the performance space, I can move more consciously. As a result of that stripping away, I feel more freedom to add other elements, including text, into my dances. I have found that using text puts into relief some of the abstract questions that dancing brings to the surface. As words exit the body and enter the performance space, they help me uncover a layer
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press
Published: Jan 1, 2012
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