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JUL-AUG 2007

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Dance

The Real Tomato

by Susan Yung

Dance

In this modern world, we conduct our lives through a surprising amount of mediation and simulacrum. We rely on computers for most basic information—time, outside temperature, current headlines.

Neta Pulvermacher’s Afterlife Trilogy

by Carley Petesch

Dance

Everyone deals with death in different ways. This has never been more apparent than in Neta Pulvermacher’s evening of works at Dance New Amsterdam in June.

Alexandra Beller’s us

by Carley Petesch

Dance

An American flag covers a dancer like a soldier’s body before burial. A fist pushes through the place where the heart would be, mimicking the organ’s pulsating rhythm and suggesting life under what appears to be dead.

 

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