Sleight
Subtitle: a novel
By: Kirsten Kaschock
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781566892759
Subjects: Sisters; Fiction; Dance companies
Description: "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 form-Lark is tormented and fragile, but a prodigy; Clef is driven to excel, but lacks the spark of artistic genius. But 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, Sleightexplores ideas of performance, gender, and family to ask the question: what is the role of art in the face of unthinkable tragedy?"--Provided by publisher.