Word: jowitt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What Jowitt and Sonntag are saying is: we can't think about larger questions, about which work is a masterpiece, which choreographer a genius, because we are so dead to reality as to be unable to see the work at all. I'd like to think one could do both: see the work as it really is and ask questions of comparative value...
...first notions about dance reviewing came from a lecture by Deborah Jowitt, dance critic for The Village Voice. She stressed that the critic's responsibility is not to make value judgements but rather to describe the dance event, to recreate the experience for the reader. Her view relieves the critic of the onus of setting himself up as a judge--but is it playing chicken...
...Jowitt's view translates into practical terms the notions of author-critic Susan Sonntag in her essay "Against Interpretation," a manifesto of sorts for the sixties' avant-garde. Sonntag writes...
According to Jowitt and Sonntag, I shouldn't write that of the six Boston choreographers collaborating as Dance Collective, Beth Soll seems to have the most sensitivity for making dances, but rather I should only describe her work: "Safari," a trio for one woman and a couple, concerns memory, history, travel. Three journeyers slowly traverse the stage, their gestures more theatrical than dance-like. What begins as logic ends as absurdity; like scouts, the trio raise their hands to their brows, then transform the gesture into an odd wiggly wave...