The choreographer Merce Cunningham made reference to the idiom in his 1987 piece 'Fabrications', and has been known to use the phrase in a self-mocking manner when referring to the rehearsal process of his dances when he feels he has 'damaged the essence of the piece', in reference to his own choreography.
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