Roger Copeland, in
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Performers and choreographers of modern dance-Martha Graham, for example-have long stressed the "primitive" elements of their art. But a new generation is abandoning primitivism, and possibly dance itself.
So says Copeland, an Oberlin College theater teacher. Primitivism, he notes, arose around the turn of the century in reaction to the "neu- rotic character" of...