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Dance Can Be Dangerous (Thank God)

Alistair Spalding: “I believe that part of the furore over Javier’s work and its ability to shock is that no one, including the BBC, realised that a piece of choreography could do this. … The reality is that dance is often disturbing, ugly, confrontational, violent and sometimes sexually explicit.”

Author Matthew WestphalPosted on December 17, 2009March 30, 2021Categories danceTags 12.17.09

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