About Paramodernities
Paramodernities is a six-part series of lecture-performances generated through deconstructions and discussions of landmark modern choreographies. It was developed from choreographer Neta Yerushalmy's "Para-Modernities" performance project that evolved into a pedagogical resource. Through movement and text, the six installments devoted to iconic dance artists - Vaslav Nijinsky, Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham, Bob Fosse, and George Balanchine - treat their paradigmatic modernist choreographies as catapults to wider concerns: cultural and historical inquiry, poetry and memoir, critical race theory and disabilities studies, philosophy and art history, to name just a few.
While UCLA Library does not have direct access to the web-based Paramodernities portal for individual subscribers, we purchased the video content and host it on the Avalon platform for access by UCLA students, staff, and faculty members.
