Opera Insight Series | Curtsies & Kicks: A Talk on Dance and Social Status

Opera Insight Series | Curtsies & Kicks: A Talk on Dance and Social Status
Speaker: Sarah Oppenheim, Choreographer, The Marriage of Figaro
Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 3 PM
Maryland Hall, Room 206 | 801 Chase Street, Annapolis, MD

Tickets: $20 each

Social dances, like social graces, are an amalgam of class structures, movement fevers, and generational mores. The difference of cheek, long-practiced double standards, and systemic/problematic socialization are the reasons one generation might raise an eyebrow at a dancing body vs. rush to participate in the newest dance craze. What's the difference between operatic dance and the club floor? Just a few inches of the hip and ideas about undulation! Join us as we discuss how tearing up the dance floor looked then, feels now, and promises embodied futures.