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Sleight

Sleight

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  • Release Date: 06/10/2011
  • Barcode: 9781566892759
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Label: Coffee House Press
  • Publisher: Coffee House Press
Sleight

Sleight

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Glass Bead Game meets Black Swan.
Sisters Lark and Clef have spent their lives honing their bodies for sleight, an interdisciplinary art form that combines elements of dance, architecture, acrobatics, and spoken word. After being estranged for several years, the sisters are reunited by a deceptive and ambitious sleight troupe director named West who needs the sisters' opposing approaches to the formLark is tormented and fragile, but a prodigy; Clef is driven to excel, but lacks the spark of artistic genius.When a disturbing mass murder makes national headlines, West seizes on the event as inspiration for his new performance, one that threatens to destroy the very artists performing it.In language that is at once unsettling and hypnotic, Sleight explores ideas of performance, gender, and family to ask the question: what is the role of art in the face of unthinkable tragedy?Kirsten Kaschock has earned degrees from Yale University, the University of Iowa, Syracuse University, and the University of Georgia. The author of two collections of poetry, Unfathoms and A Beautiful Name for a Girl, she resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she is currently a doctoral fellow in dance at Temple University.

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