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Article: Dances of protest.
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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Is there a role for art in troubled times beyond escape or catharsis? These choreographers thought so; their dances were their voices raised in social protest. They hold up mirrors and make a howl.
* The Green Table, Kurt Jooss (1932). Anti-war piece inspired by World War l but based on the medieval Dance of Death. In repertoire of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago; performances by the Milwaukee Ballet in February 2004.
* Lysistrata, Antony Tudor (1932). Based on the classic Greek play by Aristophanes where Athenian women withhold sex from men until war is stopped. Echoing of Trumpets (1963), village women are degraded by an occupying army.
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