Artists' forum: Matthew Bourne, Rennie Harris, Elizabeth Streb

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Three choreographers describe the artistic worlds they create with dance and the important events in their youth that led them into the dance profession. Matthew Bourne directs Adventures in Motion Pictures in London, England. Elizabeth Streb directs her company, Streb, and came from a working class background near Rochester, NY. Rennie Harris directs Rennie Harris Puremovement, was raised in Philadelphia, PA, and performed in one of the first rap tours across the US.

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A conversation with Matthew Bourne

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British choreographer Matthew Bourne feels his work equally involves dance and direction, and tells his dancers to focus more on emotion and character than on steps. Bourne finds US audiences more open, questioning, and able to surprise than in Europe and the UK. Bourne approaches classic ballets freshly and is not intimidated by the possibility of controversy.

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"All the dances have a meaning to that apparition": felt knowledge and the danzantes of Tortugas, New Mexico

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An analysis is presented of a religious dance ceremony at a Catholic festival for Our Lady of Guadalupe. Topics include the danzantes, or the mostly male dancers in the ceremony, an explanation of the dance and the religious story behind it, and the blend of symbolic association and bodily experience told through the dance.

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