Trajal

Practice “It Is Thus”

  • Discuss the role of costume in postmodern dance
  • From today, what you wore while performing the piece if your costume for “It Is Thus”
  • Discuss the choreography of “It Is Thus” in relation to the idea of neutrality and performativity

Read text by Martha Graham

  • Scrap paper in a ball, spread, repeat, trash

Create short choreography from the proposition with the category and the selected costumes – “What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball tradition in Harlem had come downtown to Greenwich Village to perform alongside the early post-moderns at Judson Church?

  • Consider: Why did Trajal choose these two categories? How can you use costumes in this piece? Why Greek Tragedy at Judson Church?
  • No Manifesto as a Maybe Manifesto