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When I first started dancing in performances, someone said “But she walks as though she’s in the street.” If it could only be said “She writes about her work as though she’s performing it,” I would be happy indeed. That such a thing were possible. It goes without saying that a dance is a dance and a book about dance is a book. Though they may meet at the intersection of Art and Good Intentions, I find myself greedy. I have a longstanding infatuation with language, a not-easily assailed conviction that it, above all else, offers a key to clarity. Not that it can replace experience, but rather holds a mirror to our experience, gives us distance when we need it. So here I am, in a sense, trying to ‘replace’ my performances with a book, greedily pushing language to clarify what already was clear in other terms. But, alas, gone. This has seemed one good reason to compile a book ‘out of the remains of my performances, letting the language fall where it may. Let it be said simply “She usually makes performances and has also made a book.”
