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Contemporary choreographers continue to look to literature for inspiration often deconstructing traditional stories such as fairy tales and myths. Sue Healey’s Knee Deep in Thin Air was inspired by Bruno Bettelheim’s Uses of Enchantment and Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ Women who Run with the Wolves.

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Ross Gould (b.1946)
Warwick Long and Michelle Heaven in Knee Deep in Thin Air, Vis-a-vis Dance Canberra, 1993
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