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Note to my small handful of readers as of Aug. 10, 2012: please accept my apologies for the non-linearity of this essay-in-progress and of course for the ridiculous number of typos. A lot of this narrative instability is caused by … Continue reading
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(preamble): Why Red Sorghum – again. I have recently rewritten the frontispiece for this website: it now focuses on the metatrope of flight. Physical flight upward, seemingly without point of return or safety armature. Something I first noticed in reviewing … Continue reading
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“Painting by Wushu brush” – the Martial Artiste Stages the Ribbon-sleeve Dance *** The dancer-choreographer here in focus – Huang Doudou – consistently tells his press following that he is building a “modern dance” for China, albeit not “simply” modern: … Continue reading
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(1) The Qin Warrior comes back to life after 2200 years…. **** Gloomy prognosis aside a new formula for male SOLO dance did however emerge in the later 1990s. As one might expect it was centered in (around) gymnastic agility … Continue reading
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PICTURE SET: THE BUILDING BLOCKS ….. Fig. 1 Han Mural of Dancer with Sword (possibly a shaman making/finishing a blood sacrifice) Fig. 2 Li Shengsuo 李胜素 as Concubine Yu, Sword Dance from (Opera) “Farewell My Concubine (1998): “Backflex” Fig. … Continue reading
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Note to readers: the essay extends an earlier of Oct 12 essay “Backstage Musical and Chen Kaige’s “FAREWELL” — to what?”. But it is a second go: spurred by the of the ever renewing interest in the suicide of 张国荣 … Continue reading
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Introduction. “Hang High the Red Lanterns”. 1991. Zhang Yimou, dir. We all have seen the film, a few the 2003 ballet, probably fewer still worked our way through the original (Chinese-langage) novella by 苏童 妻妾成群 “Wife and Concubines in Contest” … Continue reading
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Pagetop collage: teenage girl pulled from well nr Tianjin fall 2012 (attemped suicide); Cuiqiao’s father predicting her death by drowning; Raise High: “Coral” singing her operatic swansong as she faces death-by-enchainment in the rooftop jail on the Chen mansion: Shanghai … Continue reading
