Issue #13

Fall/Winter 1996-97

Body/Belief

Cover of Issue #13

Spirituality, religion, and ritual all bring up complex relationships to embodiment and to dance. This issue, guest edited by Audrey Kindred and Peter Larose, examines the notion of "belief" on multiple registers — from devotion to the discipline of dance, to wrestling with organized religion. Contributors range from practitioners examining the close connection between dance and ritual across various cultural traditions, to performative texts that inhabit fervent religious rhetoric of the growing Christian right, to more ethereal examinations of the way embodiment opens up pathways to belief that elude conventional forms of articulation and codification.

Editorial team

Contributing Editor

Peter Larose Audrey Kindred

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Julie Atlas Muz

Assistant Editor

Anya Pryor Jaime Ortega

Articles

Why I Practice Yoga

I am a dancer and a choreographer. In 1987 I quit a ten-year yoga practice in order, I said, to deepen my dancing. My dancing would henceforth be my sole...

Marks on the Wall

Nothing explains the way things happen science included, and the lack of language for a body expressing itself as it grows bigger bulging in places soft in others sometimes hard...

Gluttony

The word obscene in Latin is ob , meaning on or to, and scaena , stage. To be obscene is literally to be on stage. A band of heretics, performers...

Two Life Stories

Content warning: This essay utilizes racial slurs. I grew up in Israel in the 1940s and 1950s as a child of the single Jewish Yemenite family in a neighborhood of...

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Remembering Robert Dunn

Movement Research's next issue, Performance Journal # 14. will recognize the legacy of Robert Dunn, the musician, composer, teacher and choreographer who died on July 5th at the age of...

Stepping Out

It was a cold Sunday morning in January 1994 when I first walked into Judson Church. It was the first time I had ever attended a church service for any...

Three Stories

The Great Harlot Who Sits On Many Waters This happened when I was very small. I was riding in a car with just my mother. I was curled close enough...

Take Me Up

A church is an empty space. Behind the ceilings are pockets of more space. Above the floor of Judson, about 60 dancing feet high, is the pastor's attic. It's a...

Hum and Murmur

Observing Tibetan Buddhism from my living room. I charged him money and let him in, and he set up his altar in my living room. When I returned seven weeks...

Alice

I try to break with fairy tales excised like a sore every nesting need dressed up as love good verbs aside, monsters exist for a little girl awakening the silence...