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This is not a fetish or a use of heaviness as an accent against a predominantly light quality, but a thing in itself.

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The word “heavy” connotes something incorrect, since what is meant is not the heaviness of a bag of cement falling, although we've all been spectators of that too, but the heaviness of a living body falling with full intent of eventual rise. To quibble with that on the other side: one of the best discoveries the modern dance has made use of is the gravity of the body in weight, that is, as opposite from denying (and thus affirming) gravity by ascent into the air, the weight of the body in going with gravity, down. In the modern dance, the tendency or the wish has been to get rid of these “unnecessary and balletic” movements, at the same time wanting the same result in the size and vigor of the movement as the balletic action, and this has often left the dancer and the spectator slightly short. This also helps define the rhythm, in fact more often than not does it define it. In the ballet the various steps that lead to the larger movements or poses have, by usage and by their momentum, become common ground upon which the spectator can lead his eyes and his feelings into the resulting action. Aside from the personal skill and clarity of the individual dancer, there are certain things that make clear to a spectator what the dancer is doing. But the moving becomes more clear if the space and time around the moving are one of its opposite-stillness. The result is that neither the one nor the other-moving or being still-is more of less important, except it's nice to see a dancer moving. A body still is taking up just as much space and time as a body moving. The fortunate thing in dancing is that space and time cannot be disconnected, and everyone can see and understand that. Some of the space-thought coming from the German dance opened the space out, and left a momentary feeling of connection with it, but too often the space was not visible enough because the physical action was all of a lightness, like sky without earth, or heaven without hell.

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The modern American dance, stemming from German expressionism and the personal feelings of the various American pioneers, made space into a series of lumps, or often just static hills on the stage with actually no relation to the larger space of the stage area, but simply forms that by their connection in time made a shape. The classical ballet, by maintaining the image of the Renaissance perspective in stage thought, kept a linear form of space.

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