Abstract
© 2006 Joanna Brotman No matter how abstract or nonliteral an artistic work may seem, our fundamental human drive to express and to discover meaning and story in what we experience is always engaged. Non-literal work doesn’t force the issue, instead it gives us breathing room to come to terms with images in our own way, and to create our own sense of what we see and hear and feel. Merce Cunningham, who is widely regarded as one of the most abstract of choreographers, said that emotion is always present in dance “because it’s a human being doing it. A human being is not an abstract. I think that everything a human does is expressive in some way.” In Deborah Hay’s O,O, choreographer, dancer, and audience conspire to reflect the world in a bubble, to find the meaning intrinsic in movement, and to make a story of the seemingly random confluence of events.
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