“We’re seeing surfacing in American contemporary dance work in recent years the deliberate use of strategies that have long been common artistic practice in other art forms. Appropriation, sampling, referencing and dialoguing with other artists’ works, notions of authorship, dissolving of genres, the rethinking of dance’s relationship with movement, and with audiences, etc., are all in play. Also in play is an impatience with the cherished notion of originality.”