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Sally Silvers got her start in the nineteen-eighties, but she was never afflicted with the postmodern concerns of that decade: the irony, the obsession with style. Always, she has been a straight-out modernist--an abstractionist, a collagist--and apparently this had to do, in part, with politics. Early in her career, when she was given to contributing essays to arts journals, she wrote that she saw modernism as a way " 'to willfully not remember' the way things are; to not have to exist in relationship to authority, to make a new position . . . not limited to symbols of lack." Some of her dances have been overtly political. One was about America's relationship with ...