The psychological categories of 'introversion' and 'extroversion' serve as useful markers of two extremes in the character of performed dance...
Yvonne Rainer's The Mind is a Muscle (1968) stripped away the gestural conventions of dance or theatre narrative in an attempt to present the human subject on her own terms while at the same time manipulating the seductiveness of the image, increasingly being harnessed by capitalism.
Josefine Wikström discusses how Tate Modern’s programme ‘Art in Action’ brings the museum up to date with recent trends in artistic practice and questions the economics behind this move.
