But as a signifier for European postmodern dance-this image just might work. Instead, it has the expansive emotional reach of Albrecht swearing allegiance to Giselle-and Baryshnikov's fashionable eyeglasses suggest that his is a body with a consciousness of seduction, his dance driven by an intelligence and pleasure in the audience-pleasing aesthetic, and not just the functional aspects, of the movement he is performing. This Kirov-trained danseur's gesture seems too theatrical for the raw minimalism of the Judson Dance Theatre ethos. It's a dramatic, arresting, historic.and wrong.image. Baryshnikov sits on the stage floor, naked except for boxers, his jacket and trousers hanging off tiny hooks taped to his bare torso as if he were his own valet. The photo on the cover of Ramsay Burt's Judson Dance Theatre: Performative Traces shows Mikhail Baryshnikov performing Flat, Steve Paxton's iconic 1964 solo.
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