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The Art of Gravity: Poems

Jay Rogoff

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Description:George Balanchine, one of the twentieth century’s foremost choreographers, strove to make music visible through dance. In The Art of Gravity, Jay Rogoff extends this alchemy into poetry, discovering in dancing—from visionary ballets to Lindy-hopping at a drunken party—the secret rhythms of our imaginations and the patterns of our lives.The poems unfold in a rich variety of forms, both traditional and experimental. Some focus on how Edgar Degas’s paintings expose the artifice and artistic self-consciousness of ballet while, paradoxically, illuminating how it creates rapture. Others investigate dance’s translation of physical gesture into allegorical mystery, especially in Balanchine’s matchless works. Rogoff pays tribute to superb dancers who grant audiences seductive glimpses of the sublime and to all of us who find in dance a redemptive image of ourselves.The poet reveals dance as an “art of gravity” in the illusory weightlessness of a “dance that ends in mid-air,” in the clumsiness of a Latin dance class’s members “trip- / ping over each other in the high school / gym,” and in the exploration of ultimate Gravity—a sonnet sequence titled “Danses Macabres.” Ultimately, Rogoff confronts with unflinching precision the dark consummation of all our dancing.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Art of Gravity: Poems. To get started finding The Art of Gravity: Poems, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 93

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press

Release: 2011

ISBN: 0807138908

Description: George Balanchine, one of the twentieth century’s foremost choreographers, strove to make music visible through dance. In The Art of Gravity, Jay Rogoff extends this alchemy into poetry, discovering in dancing—from visionary ballets to Lindy-hopping at a drunken party—the secret rhythms of our imaginations and the patterns of our lives.The poems unfold in a rich variety of forms, both traditional and experimental. Some focus on how Edgar Degas’s paintings expose the artifice and artistic self-consciousness of ballet while, paradoxically, illuminating how it creates rapture. Others investigate dance’s translation of physical gesture into allegorical mystery, especially in Balanchine’s matchless works. Rogoff pays tribute to superb dancers who grant audiences seductive glimpses of the sublime and to all of us who find in dance a redemptive image of ourselves.The poet reveals dance as an “art of gravity” in the illusory weightlessness of a “dance that ends in mid-air,” in the clumsiness of a Latin dance class’s members “trip- / ping over each other in the high school / gym,” and in the exploration of ultimate Gravity—a sonnet sequence titled “Danses Macabres.” Ultimately, Rogoff confronts with unflinching precision the dark consummation of all our dancing.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Art of Gravity: Poems. To get started finding The Art of Gravity: Poems, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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