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  • Depictions of Dance

    I recently watched the first season of the Netflix series, The Royals, which has a character named Ophelia who is ostensibly a professional-level dancer who has been invited to audition for “Mr. Ballantine’s” dance company in New York. This is a tongue-in-cheek reference to Mr. Balanchine (George Balanchine, the longtime director of The New York…

  • Dancing in Music

    Dancing in music is an immersion experience. It’s not reducible to either conforming dance movements to beats of time or a layering a visual component on top of an audible score, although of course it can be both of these things. Dancing in music is like swimming in a way that makes use of, or…