Locates Lloyd Newson's Strange Fish, created for DV8 Physical Theatre, in the cultural frame of dance and art in the late twentieth century in Europe, bringing the spectator's role to the forefront. Lansdale's intertextual and creative engagement with the work is balanced by a sense of the uniqueness and integrity of Strange Fish. Drawing on texts related to Greek and Christian histories, to psychoanalytic thinking of recent times and to feminism and queer theory, Lansdale presents cogent interpretations which are critical of, yet in sympathy with, the work.Adshead-Lansdale shows how dance research can aspire to, and equal, the much longer-standing analytic accounts of individual works in music, theatre and the visual arts, to penetrate the many layers of meaning that interpreters construct.
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