[New-Poetry] Collaborative Carson

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/arts/dance/08stac.html?ref=arts
Amid a Sculptural Physicality, a Poet Walks and Talks Onstage 

In some ways poetry and dance are natural partners; both create complex and ambiguous meaning through structure, rhythm and sensual logic. Words, like bodies, have a sense and sensibility that creep beyond narrative logic into the realm of experience, whether on the page or in the flesh.


In theatrical settings, though, the forms can compete, preventing an audience from sinking fully into either. This competition can be used to marvelous effect. It can also frustrate. 


Thursday’s program at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts showed the difficulties and pleasures inherent in such multidisciplinary efforts. 

First came “Stacks,” a collaboration among the choreographer Jonah Bokaer, the poet Anne Carson and the sculptor Peter Cole, then “Bracko,” a collaboration between Ms. Carson and the choreographer Rashaun Mitchell (a Merce Cunningham dancer, like many of the performers; Mr. Bokaer is a Cunningham alumnus). 

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