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Reimagining the Brown Body

Contact Improvisation and an Alternative Masculinity in Alignigung, William Forsythe’s Screendance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2021

Wesley Lim
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Abstract

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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TDR , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , September 2021 , pp. 78 - 90
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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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