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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr" style="font-size:small">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Pat Laurence</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:pat.laurence@gmail.com" target="_blank">pat.laurence@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 3:39 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] NYTimes: ‘[Virginia] Woolf Works’ Review: A Literary Ballet’s Missteps<br>To:<br>Cc: <a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>><br></div><br style="font-size:small"><br style="font-size:small"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div style="font-size:large"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I disagree with this review: Wayne McGregor takes some right steps in the dancescape of “Woolf Works.” On a beautiful day in June about a century after the novel <i>Mrs. Dalloway</i> was written, I want to defend the dance adaptation--“I now, I then”--part of McGregor’s trilogy, taking exception to Siebert’s assumptions about dance, literature and Woolf (NYT 6/29/24). I approach the dance acts as I do all Woolf adaptations with hopefulness and fear. Woolf’s <i>Mrs. Dalloway</i> was an experiment—as is McGregor’s work--and there is a challenge to any adaptation in dance, cinema, drama, art. How do you find the visual, physical and musical equivalents for interiority-- for the whirl of her mind and language? How do you connect these minds to bodies that drift in and out of different kinds of realities and from past to present and back again? Harvena Richter, one of Woolf’s early critics gives us a clue: she asserts that Woolf introduced us to new rhythms in the “body ego” in character for the first time in fiction---rhythms that emerge from “sensations” that are captured in language. They are also captured in dance. We feel and read into the multiple dancing Clarissas in youth, aging, with Virginia Woolf as a character (wonderful Alessandra Feri) weaving in and out; Clarissa dancing gracefully with her husband; more wildly with Peter, youthful lover; playfully with Sally, receiving her kiss. Importantly, Clarissa not only unleashes her fluid sexuality but dances with tortured Septimus, her twin, though Siebert objects to this as for him, “noting its divergences from Woolf’s work is necessary.” Why? But, in fact, it does not diverge but reflects Woolf’s earlier draft of the novel in which she contemplates Clarissa committing suicide, mirrored in their dance. Macgregor is not only interested in “character and story” as Siebert asserts, but in this particular dance presents (the others, less successful) the whirling body egos of Woolf’s characters at different times and states of mind—and to be applauded for the experiment.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Patricia Laurence</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> Professor Emerita</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> City University of New York</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Recent publications: “The </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Daring Smiles of Ancient Women: Modern Conjectures of Anna Banti & Elizabeth Bowen” co-author, Stefania Porcelli, TAB Rom</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">e, <span style="color:black">fall 2024; </span></span><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Elizabeth Bowen, A Literary Life (2021); </span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“The Dreamwork of a Nation: From Virginia Woolf to Elizabeth Bowen to Mary Lavin,” <i>The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature (2021)</i>; </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">“A Transnational Literary Friendship: Ling Shuhua and Virginia Woolf,” British Library Chinese Partnership Project, on-line, </span><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.britishlibrary.cn/en/articles/a-transnational-literary-friendship-virginia-woolf-and-ling-shuhua/__;!!KGKeukY!z_AkLZh51TVwYYblkf1D-J77UJXUzh_iu_PRrmYRS9aW6i6gmQ0gyBja4LhlzCfCyjqwOHT7lny_oi2PC5pE7YaqIw$" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">http://www.britishlibrary.cn/en/articles/a-transnational-literary-friendship-virginia-woolf-and-ling-shuhua/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:32px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 11:51 AM Kllevenback via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">‘Woolf Works’ Review: A Literary Ballet’s Missteps<br>
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