Right On and Dance Fractions for the West Coast

Ann Halperin has always taught a form of dance that incorporates healing. In Right On, her own Dancers' Workshop and Studio Watts, an all-Black company from Los Angeles, gather to perform "Ceremony of Us." This heartfelt work captures the initial rehearsals, as the dancers triumph over racial difference. For Yvonne Rainer, dance was the choreography of normal gestures, not the manufacture of high stylization. In Dance Fractions for the West Coast, she leads thirty dancers through a large-scale regimented dance. Central to the work are several skewed monologues (one on collaboration, the other on snot) and a rare solo dance performance by Rainer. Dance Fractions was "lost" until its transfer from the 2-inch master videotape this summer.-Steve Seid

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