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Playing with Horses

Improvisation and Communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2021

Kimber Sider
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Abstract

Listening to animals is not only about hearing howls, chirps, snorts, mews, nickers, and other vocal articulations; it is about recognizing preferences, perspectives, and relationships that animals communicate through movement, gesture, feeling, and resonance. When humans observe the complex ways that animals make meaning through performance, space emerges for animals to claim their rights to voice and agency in the presence of humans.

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TDR , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , September 2021 , pp. 91 - 102
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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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