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Witch Dance

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One of the many forms
one of the many outlets
a manifestation of the strange
inexplicable evokes feelings of eeriness

Stick raw humanity
on stage
unseen ugliness
for all who ignore to view

Irrational is the disjointed side of natural
appearing monstrous before your eyes

Watch my crawl across the floor
my soul moving
elongated arms
repossess in this state of trance
open up
portray horrors of emotion
play the dark dramatic
the pulse of everything you do
Be what no one wants to see

Communicate despite
the hard knocks
that try to shut me up

Disrupt social order
reject accepted forms
embrace the macabre
feel and release
all the parts that
might break
all you know
I wrote this for my midterm for my modern dance class I'm taking this summer. We had to choose a modern dance pioneer or choreographer and I chose Mary Wigman.

She was one of the pioneers of expressionist modern dance. Her choreography was abstract and she was inspired by the films of directors such as Fritz Lang, Pabst, and Murnau (who directed Nosferatu).

I wrote this poem and made a pastel art piece where I wrote part of this down (which I'll upload later) based on her dance, "Witch Dance".
(And I'll probably edit this description later...)
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