animality

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The movement for “Afternoon of a Faun” alludes to the two-dimensional choreography of Nijinsky’s dance to that Debussy piece, a nod to a predecessor of Naharin’s stylized animality.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

He believed “a being who is ashamed of his animality in that very fact proves himself to be more than a mere animal”.

From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2019

He thinks that personhood is a form of self-imposed dullness and yearns for the vivid openness of animality.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016

If you’re an orangutan living in a zoo, you have basically one of two animality types.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013

Thus, as I have already observed, materialism starts from animality to establish humanity; idealism starts from divinity to establish slavery and condemn the masses to an endless animality.

From God and the State by Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich