Reimagining the Brown Body Contact Improvisation and an Alternative Masculinity in Alignigung, William Forsythe's Screendance

Wesley Lim

doi:10.1017/S1054204321000320

Reimagining the Brown Body Contact Improvisation and an Alternative Masculinity in Alignigung, William Forsythe's Screendance

Wesley Lim^*

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Abstract

William Forsythe's screendance Alignigung (2016) depicts two male dancers, one fair- and the other brown-skinned, in hyperflexible and intimate configurations that vacillate between object and human. Alignigung engages with an egalitarian ethos along the same lines as contact improvisation but further demonstrates an alternative masculinity through movement qualities by reimagining the stereotypical brown body.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	78-90
Number of pages	13
Journal	TDR - The Drama Review - A Journal of Performance Studies
Volume	65
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204321000320
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2021

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