Falling Through Dance and Life

Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Introduction
	Structure and content
	Falling through dance
	A practice of falling
	Conceptual falls
	A contextual fabric
	Back stories
1 Falling Apart
	A REMEDY
	UP IS GOOD
	SUPREME FEATS
	STANDING BONES
	ROLLING
	STIFF AND BRAVE
	ICONIC HEROINE
	EARTH’S GRIEF
	ABOUT DYING
	RECALLING GROUND
	INFANT WISDOM
	UNDER SIDE
	CONTACT HIGH
	THE LADDER SCENE
	RELEASING DANCE
	A DISGRACE
	CONSTRUCTING RISK
	BRIDGE
	TEETER TOTTER
	A STILL POINT
	PACKAGING
	DYING FOR LOVE
	SUBLIME BANALITY
	ENDURANCE
	DEATH DIVES
	THE BUCK STOPS HERE
2 Falling Out
	A LUMBERING TILT
	ABOUT SHAME
	DUST
	PULLING UP
	GRAND SLAM
	A DEAD BLACK
	STIFF UPPER LIP
	NOT A BLACK PROBLEM
	KEEPING FACE
	A GOOD WHITE
	WRONG BODIES
	A COOL WALK
	HUMILIATE THE BOY
	CINDERELLA IN DRAG
	TRANSACTION
	YES TO TRASH
	BASIPHOBIA
	GRIEVING TOGETHER
	MELTDOWN
	MY SON AND ME
	APRIL 2020
	OPTIMISTIC DECEPTION
	STRIPPED
	EXCESSIVE SLIPS
3 Falling Away
	SHOLIBA
	FORGETTING
	VERT LEAPS
	NOT GOING GENTLY
	WILLING TRANSITION
	RIGGED FLESH
	CAUGHT ON THE BLINK
	A COLD STAGE
	DEFIANCE
	ANGEL WINGS
	THRILLS
	OUT OF CIRCUS
	EVOKED COMPANIONS
	SEX IN CRISIS
	FAILING SUCCESS
	MORO REFLEX
	ARÊTE
	A THUMP
	NEUTRAL BUOYANCY
	A CLIFF EDGE
	LEAN ON ME
	BAREFOOT
	SAND WALKING
	TORTUROUS DELIGHT
4 Falling About
	PRATFALLS
	STAR STUMBLES
	ABOUT LAUGHTER
	NIHILISTIC OPTIMISM
	IT’S NOT FUNNY
	GRAVESTONE LAUGHS
	PEN PALS
	FLATTENING THE CORPSE
	FEISTY DECAY
	FLIP-FLOPS AND TUNICS
	GIBBERISH
	REPRESENTED REAL
	CURIOSITY REFRESHED
	WHAT NOW
	A VOID A DAY
	OFF YOUR KNEES
	CAN I LET YOU GO?
	NOTHING IN OUR WAY
	BODY STORIES
	A CRUEL SPRING
	DANCE WITH ME
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