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Streams: Ailey’s First Plotless Dance

Streams: Ailey’s First Plotless Dance (024.00.00)

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Premiering in April 1970, Streams, set to a percussion score by Miloslav Kabelac, was Ailey’s first full-length dance without a plot. Dance historian Thomas F. De Frantz has noted that Streams is a “compressed layered arrangement of fragments taken from a long movement phrase [that] explores the architecture of bodies in space.”
Premiering in April 1970, <em>Streams</em>, set to a percussion score by Miloslav Kabelac, was Ailey’s first full-length dance without a plot. Dance historian Thomas F. De Frantz has noted that <em>Streams</em> is a “compressed layered arrangement of fragments taken from a long movement phrase [that] explores the architecture of bodies in space.”