All Contested Phrases: An Aria from dancer russian instagram Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 10 min 10 sec ✓ Published: 16-Apr-2022
Description: In response to efforts to impose censorship by the Provost at the University of Florida, a group of UF Faculty and community members have devised a creative performance using challenged language as the text for a contemporary aria. The aria, based in part on elements of compositions by the twentieth-century Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, draws ironic parallels between the actions of a staunchly “anti-socialist” state government and Stalinist legacies of censorship. It was performed Ap
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