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Interview with Maggie Humm
Read more: Interview with Maggie HummMaggie Humm reflects on feminist criticism, life-writing, and Virginia Woolf’s influence.


Maggie Humm reflects on feminist criticism, life-writing, and Virginia Woolf’s influence.

In 1917, Erik Satie faced a spiritual dilemma—the challenge of giving voice to death, to nothingness. The composer had begun setting fragments of Plato’s narrative account of Socrates’s final days and death. Satie wanted the music to be ‘as white…
“Dancers are experts in mental processes such as memory, timing and motor cognition, and the study of dance can provide insight into these basic processes…. At the same time, several changes in psychology and neuroscience, make dance a more attractive…