How does a choreographer create a narrative dance with universal concepts that the audience will know? In today's world, dance is becoming more and more global. Dancers perform all over the world and attempt to relate to their audience. However, most stories are not universal. In the above pictures, a Chinese audience may not know the myth of Clytemnestra, but a Greek audience will know the name if not the entire story.
As dance continues to grow in the international field, I think that the universal connection for the audience is movement. Movement and mobility is possible for most bodies. Dance fascinates because it shows the limits of the body in virtuosic technique or the mundane through American post-modern movement. So, the narrative dance may no longer be universal to every audience, but the choreographer can strive to make the movement evoke response out of any audience. If dance incites reaction and response out of the audience, is that not the goal of every choreographer?
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