One Foot Inside the Circle: Contemporary Dance of Los Angeles Steps Outside Postmodernism and into Neo-Modernism-with-a-Twist (original) (raw)

2014

Abstract

ABSTRACT Teresa Heiland in "One Foot Inside the Circle: Contemporary Dance of Los Angeles Steps Outside Postmodernism and into Neo-Modernism with a Twist: draws connections between the city of Los Angeles and the unique dance form of HyperDance, which has emerged from this metropolis. The puzzle of a major American city with an enormous entertainment industry, yet little reputation or institutional support for modern dance, serves as an entree into the connection between place and dance. She argues that the economic power of the Hollywood entertainment industry and its focus on spectacle, computer-aided special effects, intermixing of dance and movement styles, and a constant focus on innovation has served to create the unique place-based form of dance HyperDance, which is focused on pushing the human body to its physical limits and creating ways of moving that havFlue never been seen before. Heiland connects this hybrid dance form to Los Angeles' postmodern urban form and the culture of the city which revolves around newness and growth, asserting a dynamic connection between urban space and movement. Heiland draws on Bourdieu to argue that LA is a giant field out of which a postmodern pastiche of Hyperdance has emerged.

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