(artículo) Is choreography gender-specific? Decide for yourself

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• Gina Gibney Dance
Sunday, January 07, 2007
MARTHA ULLMAN WEST

I s there a feminine sensibility in choreography?

Can a viewer tell from the content, style and technique of a dance that a woman created it?

When we're watching Mary Oslund's explorations of how bodies relate to each other in space, with dancers of both sexes executing her sharply honed, angular, hard-edged vocabulary, do we say to ourselves, "Oh yes, this is the way women make dances?"
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And when the curtain goes down and the dancers take their bows, does it matter?

These questions and many others have been raised by White Bird's current season at Portland State University's Lincoln Performance Hall, dubbed "A Celebration of International Women Choreographers," which on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights will feature Gina Gibney Dance.

Gibney's New York-based, all female company is the third in the series, which opened with Mexico's Tania Perez-Salas Compania de Danza in October and followed last month with Compagnie TcheTche from the Ivory Coast. The series concludes March 22-24 with performances by the Dutch troupe Conny Janssen Danst.


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