What is it about?
Power relations are examined between choreographers and dancers, unraveling how these relations result in who is credited and whose labor and precarity is recognized. The trope of dancers, specifically female dancers, being mere instruments or muses is deconstructed in the re-examination of the relationship between modern dance pioneers Lester Horton and Bella Lewitzky.
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Why is it important?
This article re-examines how dance history is remembered, highlighting how women may be forgotten, only being seen as a vehicle for a man's creative genius, specifically in the case of the relationship between Lester Horton and Bella Lewitzky.
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This article asserts the power of dancers and recognizes Bella Lewitzky in the creation of the Horton technique, thus renaming it the Lewitzky-Horton technique.
Heather Harrington
Kean University
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This page is a summary of: “Dancer as collaborator, co-author, co-owner, co-creator: power relations between dancer and choreographer”, Research in Dance Education, April 2023, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14647893.2023.2202907.
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