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Article: Rise west, set east: confounding expectations comes naturally to choreographer Sarah Michelson. "Shadowmann," her recent "site-specific anti-epic," revealed the spectacle that animates even ordinary human activities. (Dance).(Dance Review)
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- Art in America
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- July 1, 2003
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British-born, New York-based dancer and choreographer Sarah Michelson, age 38, mixes earnestness, irreverence, rigor, humor, aggressiveness and subtlety in often stark avant-garde work that, for the past decade, has been turning upside down many givens of performance. Her favorite boundaries to push are those between performers and audience, and between theater and the real world. Michelson's explorations (or, rather, near demolitions) of performance conventions have led her to execute entire evening-length performances nude, or to blanket her audience with plastic to keep them from getting wet as she splashed onstage in a little plastic wading pool full of water.
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