DANCE POEMS

AFTER THE RAIN
Christopher Wheeldon


                                     Dark water
compass needle


                                     divining rod


                                     crucify




                        backwards


                                         lizard




                        radio tower


                        clock spine


                        bird neck


cormorant       metronome




astrolabe 
                        kite breath
moon hip eyes


                                compass-drawn


                       golem rain


                       crescent moon


                      
                       in crescendo 






to the air cobra
                                           aerial
                          scissor


clock
                         a tree or a silo










                        shadows
                                     align




alone


                        bronze


                        sleep




                        awake awaiting




mudra oval








                        embrace 
                                    sun
gaze                soft




                                    Halasana


humus-born
                                    dolor


drop                                                part





                                    above
             moon leap


                                    scion




                           slow into agony


                                    far                             stare






                                   rower


                                                                      horizon




                                    die-stamp




                          leveled
           


                                                                     swing
                                                                fall
                                                      upon 






                                                      rest
                                                arch    float




prow woman


          into waves


withstood




                                                today                 arraign
arise
                                                         afloat




                bridge                              east


                wing               south

DANCE POEMS

DIVERTIMENTO NO. 15
George Balanchine




Crown


                 thoughts
                 breathing
                           wedge


 mirror exit
            dissolving line








            corridor


                        bird heart


                        dynamo


                                      switch stripe
                       photo margin




                       breathing blossom




                       full stop
              crossed spot
asymptote
                 center
uneven curl dissolve
                 a rune of limbs




                 pale binary shift




                 mandala spin


binary vanish
                 trumpet telegraph




                 slash grace
patterer                        angle


another superimposition


stitched sway






                  a restless clock






       on a wire
                      Mercury
at last symmetry


twirling ingot
roving delta
       eye aperture


frame becomes film


shifting fourths


lonely tumbleweed


                              a closing door
                              in
                                 concord
as though an echo of before


                              another door
another union
                              last to the sky
                    
                              a sundial


a church
                              steeple tip
                              of motion


                 intrepid en face






                 the space between


                       center together






overhead clouds
                dipping further into fantasy




                among


asymmetry makes a center
a violin
                   entreaty
                                      segregate
                    bright over


                    twinned quadrants




                    corridor returns
                                   a margin




                    among them all
returns her


                    the shape at center
                    ever adjusting


an expanding court


within memory                        or
                       captivity


spinning into resolution


resolute pairs
                        the full force

      

DANCE POEMS

 

PINA BAUSCH

“Vollmond”

                        Fossil wedge

clock-arm

                        syntax

            thrum

 scythe cycle

            worm pendulum

                        maladroit

lever

            centrifuge

                                    can’t

            wraith kiss

trunk air noble grower twist

            shadow bug lake

                        old cavern hurler

                                    she

                                    faun legs

            hand gauge

                                    all the people

                                    dove line

            plash

            akimbo

                                    hair flame skein

            crone wing

                                    knob

            flap

tock

wrest screwbird

bound              geist

black                taper

                        scuttle

line rung

            was wrong shadow

lock rain push

Kali

            salt       embrace

            shade   clap

sphinx             harper

                        lamprey

linear

                        flight fright

                        char                 aural

                                    clime

                                    wait

shillelagh rain

                                    water glyph

                                                ponder

ripple glimmer

                        reflexive

                        piston

                                    torment ape

            drop arc

            windmill

            ink hair scuttle

            sufi was the sky

lawn water chiaroscuro

            strobe orb

                        seal

                                    troll

            orange sin

                                    odalisque ruby

            dour

                        weeping

                                    song

            poppy wrath

                        crux churn

            kiss

spider              shadow

            thank hands

                        robot

                        morn

the precarious plight

            of a body

            in the wind.

                        Lever pull

still crux

                        over sun circle

            sun body

                                    jack

plough fluid

            her

was repose

                        bridge cast

moon damp sprite

was a shadow

speech hair

                        wound

                        freeze

                        sob

            storm

shone               was

fur

            body wheel

                        tumble

moon atmosphere

           

            hush slush

            slosh

                        molecule

                                    ritual

            clock

                        speech

            snake

            nebula arc

                                    storm man

            lush spark

            paper-eating

            trembling

                                   

                                    waltz

            burst

                        aorta

            like swimming

debris slop

hurl

spurt rain

            paint dress

blood

            erased

cushion

            framed

            gargoyle pull

was down over

the light

            ibis

            rain

                                    a

                                    s

            script

            spark

            repeat

was      together

            what was

            the doer not his

                        oval

copper shrine

                        sheet

            twinned

            trimmed

                        sylph lost

what was that at

            the rain

mechanism

                        kinetic

            supple

                        beach

            hand

breath

            rising

                                    salt & pepper

                        wave

            flower venom

                        overwhelm

phase

                        meant light

            human

                        further

DANCE POEMS

ÁNGEL CORELLA
“STRING SEXTET”

Movement 1.
Braid arc

 cowseye clockwork

brusher

   fold point

 aerial

   sculpt

reverse

   scissor

 gaze  focal

  engine of
mirrors
 burnish
  oval

landscape  skirmish

 Reina  elope
  ripple
  strand
   coterie
    slash


 ripple
  pace dull
armature

Movement 2.

 Apparition film  semaphore


  wraith  nymph  circuit
ingot   gloam


    shun  sable


     tandem
rectify      magnet

compass feet  lately  dangle

  broken  reign

Movement 3.

Snow  cavalcade


alleles 


  maestro

    flayed


 everything is order  stage

pile  layer

 Miró  line

   eraser

Movement 4.

  Arch  swing

river  loop
    gazelle

  dim comet spool

  shadow after

ricochet
  ablaze

  
  water hammer
  wall

windmill  figure

churns  blossom train

tree  Othello  diagonal symmetry

taken   starry


    asterisk move

  more

   spun balls

limning white
    film

grommet


  diurnal

  schism below

    flower popping

branch logic

DANCE POEMS

LEONID LAVROVSKY
“WALPURGISNACHT”

 
  Verdure
   equinox

 loam spirit

   brazen

 shift

  over-

  feral
 satyr  lurch

  hover

  doer

 bridge chasm slider

 green


  fire


   aisle

  over  dove

 trestle
pinion  gambol



  hoof staccato

 archer  over drill

  fracture scalpel


  echolalia
  velocity











  crimson peaked



  petal
     drift

  chaser


  spider frond

rim splice

  leaper  carrier

 
  lift  likely
     dusk

DANCE POEMS

 
MARÍA PAGÉS
“SOLEÁ”
                        String                        breath
            weary                        circuit
                        divide                        interior
            so
blue                                    long
last
            reliquary                        bridge
                        brown
            flame            gnome
                        simmer
            grave
            graven
                                    burn
magenta
                                    blossom
beat
            aorta                        pulse
                        riser—
                                    schist
                        mill                        motion-
            graver
                                    earth
oil
                                                row
                                                            fire

DANCE POEMS

CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON
“DGV: DANSE  À
GRAND VITESSE”


            Ambient            slide
hopper
                        sheer            wing
            Maya
                                    furl

                        eidolon                        shadow


veil
                        metal
                                                
                        gnomon
            plough
                                    prow
                                                mast
            level                        spire
            emerger
                                    sable
            framer-
                                    arachnid
rewind
over                        glum
                                                regent
                        
                        air
dance
            rafter
                                    placer
            
                                    ad
infinitum
                        gesture
giant
            brusher                                    taper
            
                        leap                                    whelm
            taker
                        jitter                        careener
                                                dream            carry
                        delve
                                                            closer
                        procession
                        speaker                        commence
runner
                                    piston
            wrist
                        flicker            vaudeville
            run
line                        dissolver
            TV
            waver
                                                folly
            lantern
                                                float
                                                flora
                        Abraxas            tongue
            O
so            carried
                        benign            grasp
                                    melt
pause
                        agile                        caesura
                        upon            intimate            swim
                                    after
slider
                        prey
lift
                                                tally
                                    last
lost crowd
                        wings
backstage
                                                tamer
            retravel
                                                drink
            bird
torso
swing lower
                                    revealer
            tremolo
            tumult
                        re
waterfy
                                    creep
roll
                        chaser
over
                        pacer                        least
long
            over
                                    glimmer            congeries
            return
                        
                        turn                        sketch
                        ground            rise
                        
                                                emblem
rise
to                        
                                                white
broad
                                                serial
re-spin
                        
                        syncopate            green
            
                        farewell
            
                                    thrum
motion            pearl
                        gate
parcel
                        palpable
                                                was
intoned
mannequin
                                    triumph
                        revolver
                                                                        down
                        lane            temple
                                    speed
                                    chiaroscuro
branch                                                            field
                        steeper            steeple
                        arm
crucible continuum
                        heart
head shadow
                        blinking            sheen
stutter                        around                        hung
edge                        nearer            away
            focal                        mane
                        crosser
                                                maker
            spanner
body future
                        wheelbarrow
                                                line
            run            into
                        lissome            weave
                        carried

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From to know this
by Angela Veronica Wong

* 
                                   to know stars die:
in wartime, countries
trade bodies for prisoners.
what is more valuable—a body
symbolic, or a body alive?  would you
trade for mine would i want
to trade for yours      is it
the body or the wanting
my want of your body my want
for your body to be my body or maybe just
next to my body       animals curled
in water     this is how I wish
to be – warmth       belonging       the L next to an S
somewhere between the meeting and the knowing
the wanting and the having
like clean sheets on a bed
hints of what is to come.