An/Notation: Wearable Poetics
Choreo + graphy, chorus writing. Embedded in the word “chorus” is both song and dance. In drama, it’s the coming together of expressive voices; in the original Greek, a “round dance” or dance in a circle.
Martha Graham compared dance to the rawness of the lyric. “It’s like the terror,” she said, “or it can be like a terrible revelation of meaning. Because when you light on a word it strikes to your heart.”
“A cosmic chamber ensemble” is what Ntozake Shange called her choreopoetic work. A way of making writing moving—moving emotionally, moving physically.
