Abstract dancers biography
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Photo: Anito Gavino
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Footprints of Abstract Dance: a three-part variation
by Anito Gavino
Initially, I was to write a review on Pam Tanowitz’s choreography created in honor of Jasper Johns. Many iterations of review-writing later, two pages tripled into an experimental think piece. This review is inspired by Johns’ postmodern method of variating a piece of art to make many more pieces of art.
To give context, I am a Filipinx immigrant artist who has internalized a felt sense of being silenced by colonialism and white supremacy. Thus, I took the challenge of writing this piece as a journey towards my own decolonial voice within dance writing. The stages of this journey are manifested in three variations.
Pictured above: a cropped photo of Johns' Numbers (1964) displaying a cast iron of Merce Cunningham's footprint.
Pictured on homepage: a cropped photo of Johns' work deconstructing John Cage's score and sheet music from his composition Perilous Night.
Variation 1:
In December 2021, I witnessed an exhibit at the Whitney Museum of Art reviving Jasper Johns’ work, Jasper Johns: MIND/MIRROR. One sculpture caught my eye: Numbers (1964) , a sculpt-metal on canvas commissioned for the Lincoln Center and displayed to this day in the New York Stat
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Crystal Pite
Canadian choreographer and dancer (born 1970)
Crystal PiteCM (born December 15, 1970) is a Canadian choreographer and dancer. She began her professional dance career in 1988 at Ballet BC, and in 1996 she joined Ballett Frankfurt under the tutelage of William Forsythe. After leaving Ballett Frankfurt she became the resident choreographer of Montreal company Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal from 2001 to 2004.[1] She then returned to Vancouver where she focused on choreographing while continuing to dance in her own pieces until 2010.[2] In 2002 she formed her own company called Kidd Pivot, which produced her original works Uncollected Work (2003), Double Story (2004), Lost Action (2006), Dark Matters (2009), The You Show (2010), The Tempest Replica (2011), Betroffenheit (2015), and Revisor (2019) to date.[3] Throughout her career she has been commissioned by many international dance companies to create new pieces, including The Second Person (2007) for Netherlands Dans Theater and Emergence (2009) for the National Ballet of Canada, the latter of which was awarded four Dora Mavor Moore Awards.
In 2010, Kidd Pivot became the resident dance company of the German theatre Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, and for the next three
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Biography
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