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    DANCE WITH IT

    Mar 01, 2019 2 minutes
    TOM MOUNA

    Dancing hasn’t been given much exhibition attention in China yet. Presented by Beijing’s Taikang Space, “Dance With It,” curated by Su Wenxiang, was a show of nine artists resolutely focused on the cultural significances of the activity—specifically, the phenomenon of Western-style dancing in China from the late 1970s to the present day.

    In the first room, there was a glistening, rotating. Like much of the show’s works, two small oil paintings of partner dances by Cui Jie seemed to embody these songs. The canvases’ ambiguities, resulting from their weighty impastos, which belie the calculated rhythms of the depicted movements, allude to the nebulous history that the exhibition traces.

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