How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS

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abjection, 12, 35, 62, 167–69, 178–79; and African American culture, 117, 119–22, 132; and mourning, 102, 134 Acquavella, Demian, 236 ACT UP. See AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power activism, 7, 65, 75, 137, 143, 265; and artists, 50, 80–83; and ethnography , 197 Agee, James, 267 AIDS, 4, 28, 47, 96–97, 109, 150; anxiety surrounding, 41, 43, 60, 208; as associated with gay men, 41, 86, 170; and bodily transformation , 199; continued presence of in choreography, 264–68; cultural analysis, 28; czar, 147; funerals, 109–14, 119–22, 160–68, 195; gothic, 206–13; heterosexual transmission of, 14; as murder, 159; as new public sphere, 180–81; popular views of, 7, 47; and semiotics, 45–48; societal effects of, 5; statistics concerning in 1989, 96; and stigma, 24; theater , 29–30; transmission of as gift, 307n.10; and underreported groups, 96; and U.S. presidents, 146–47; volunteerism, 5. See also dance AIDS Coalition to Network, Organize and Win, 6. See also AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), 8, 34, 63–76, 77, 78, 154; and corpses, 195; founding of, 66; and media, 67, 69, 72–75; Seize Control of the FDA, 64, 68–76, 69, 71, 73 AIDS Community Television, 161 Ailey, Alvin, 34, 84, 114–17, 289n.40; funeral of, 119–22 Alive and Kicking (Martin Sherman), 42–43 Alive from Off Center, 124 American Ballet Theatre, 40 American Dance Festival, 125, 131, 135 American flag, 69, 179 American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR), 87 American Institute of Architects, 175 anal eroticism, 237, 241–43, 259–61 anastasis, 230, 234 Angelou, Maya, 120–21 Angels of Light, 25. See also Price, Rodney Antoinette, Marie, 222 Arce, Elia, 50 Ariès, Phillippe, 10 333 Index Arledge, Roone, 119 Arpino, Gerald, 88 Athey, Ron, 50 Aviles, Arthur, 22, 236 Backscheider, Paula R., 177–78, 181 Ball, Bradley, 83 ballet, 271n.33, 305n.3 Banes, Sally, 244, 285n.5 Barber, Charles, 81–83 Barseness, Eric, 80 Barthes, Roland, 29, 67 Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 19, 45, 85, 87–88 Bataille, Georges, 254–58 Bender, Gretchen, 20 Bennett, Michael, 83 Berkowitz, Richard, 274n.46 Berlioz, Les nuits d’été, 132, 133, 291n.76 Berman, Janice, 15 Bernd, John, 273n.45; Live Boys, 2, 3–4, 30; Surviving Love and Death, 30–33, 32, 36. See also Tim Miller Bersani, Leo, 259 Bhabha, Homi K., 293n.4 Bie, Jesselito Cocjin, 154, 158 Biello, Michael, 246 Blake, William, 238–39 blood: imagery, 60; spilled in performance , 50–51; stigma of infected, 77; supply, in the United States, 65, 279n.42; and sweat, 50, 51; and transmission risk, 65; as used by ACT UP, 63–65, 68–69, 74–76 Board, Richard, 149, 154 bodiliness, 10, 11, 40, 45, 104, 160, 166–67. See also corporeality Body Electric, 241–42. See also Joseph Kramer body fluids, 39–45, 47, 49, 61, 77; and choreographic action, 75–76; in the gay AIDS corpse, 194; in the work of Keith Hennessy, 53–60, 63. See also blood; saliva; sweat Bordowitz, Gregg, 68 Brecht, Bertolt, 34, 140–41, 143–44 Bredbeck, Gregory W., 222 Breton, André, 255 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, 264 Brooklyn Academy of Music, 232, 263 Brown, Collin, 241 Brown, Norman O., 239 Buckley, William F., 52 Burritt, Liz, 214, 215 Bush, George, 146, 161 Bush, George W., 146–47 Butler, Judith, 105, 179 butoh, 208, 232 Caballe, Montserrat, 236–37 Cabello, Felipe Barrueto, 262 Caffrey, Stephen, 230 Cahan, Cora, 86 Callen, Michael, 46, 274n.46 camp, 107, 190; political manifestations of, 222–25; as tactic, 192, 222 Campbell, Zane, 230 Cantone, Peter, 87 Capitol. See National Mall Capp Street Project, 207 Carley, Peter, 169, 171, 173, 234, 258 Carlomusto, Jean, 68 Carnegie Hall, 14 Carpenter, Liz, 208, 214, 215, 219 Carrie, 76 Carroll, Noël, 244 Case, Sue-Ellen, 212 Castle, Terry, 212 Castro District, San Francisco, 157 Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 114, 120 Centers for Disease Control, 40. See also Food and Drug Administration ; National Institutes of Health Centerspace, 150 Central Park, 175, 176 Charles I, 177 Charles II, 177–78 Childers, Jason, 78–79 choreography, 7–11, 51, 160, 183; as insurgent, 147–48; pedestrian 173, 205 334 Index Christa, Gabri, 22 Clark, Edward, 175 Clinton, Bill, 146–47, 161 Connors, Thomas, 84 Contraband, 51 corporations: guilt associated with, 70; sponsorships, 85, 184 corporeal fetish, 125, 130 corporeality, 7–11...