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Reimagining the Brown Body Contact Improvisation and an Alternative Masculinity in Alignigung, William Forsythes Screendance

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2021-09-15

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Lim, Wesley

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Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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William Forsythe's screendance Alignigung (2016) depicts two male dancers, one fair- and the other brown-skinned, in hyperflexible and intimate configurations that vacillate between object and human. Alignigung engages with an egalitarian ethos along the same lines as contact improvisation but further demonstrates an alternative masculinity through movement qualities by reimagining the stereotypical brown body.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/262314

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ANU Research Publications

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The Drama Review (TDR)

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10.1017/S1054204321000320

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