This Dance Which Is Not One: Carole McCurdy’s ((waver))

What is it about?

Carole McCurdy’s performance ((waver)) is analyzed in conversation with the cross-cultural histories of the butoh and tango dance forms that inspire it. McCurdy selects her props and performers alike to approximate the sometimes harmonious, sometimes contradistinctive structuring rhythms of the two dance forms, resulting in a performance in which time itself is in syncopation, evoking the loaded and tumultuous pasts these dance forms evolved to grapple with through the immediacy of live performance. In staging the impossible yet omnipresent desire to unite Self and Other, McCurdy and her cast perform the limitations of intimacy.

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Why is it important?

An analysis of Chicago's vital, but under-analyzed Butoh community and the hybrid forms it takes within them.

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