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

It’s the particular triumph of his animal characters, however, that they never become merely allegorical—or rather, they become allegorical while retaining their singularity and animality.

From Slate • Jul. 13, 2014

Some authorities have thought their animality proved by the high degree of contractility which their tissues evince.

From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.