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David Zwirner has announced representation of British choreographer and dancer, Sarah Michelson. Based in New York since 1991, Michelson's work comments on how the aesthetics of dance change in relation to sound, movement, architecture and various historical and cultural conditions. "I strive for truth and beauty as a dance maker," Michelson once noted, "attempting to make work that risks rejection based on its aesthetics and at its deepest structural core denies safety in favor of trying to understand through action, honestly questioning what is the very nature and value of my dance-making."Dance, and by extension, performance art, has been a vital genre of art history, both in the last century and long before. Yet most funding for performance art has come from nonprofit spaces. "The temp...