“What was a private fantasy about dance…maybe there’s something that can mobilize us socially on a whole other scale.” In a recent conversation with leading dance scholar and performer Thomas DeFrantz, choreographer Meg Stuart discusses the ideas and practices that went into the making of the Walker commission Celestial Sorrow, from explorations of the sounding body and breath, to telepathy, sorrow, pleasure, and trance.
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