April 2010
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Performance line-up!
The research begins… (Ah, but I still have class!)
May 1: this is a forgery, Amelia Reeber, 8pm Erickson Theater Off Broadway
May 15: crushed (excerpt), locust (& Amy O’Neal), 8pm Velocity Dance Center
May 21: Form and Fluidity, Catherine Cabeen and Company: new solo and duet collaborations, 8pm Seattle Changing Room
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Dance amnesia
I can’t remember what I did on stage. I can’t step back into that moment, I can’t re-embody it… it’s a frustration with memory and with the past. That my body is so in the moment that it takes over my consciousness.
I acknowledge that this could be a general performer’s amnesia, but I don’t want to reduce it so quickly to a biological/adrenaline/chemical...
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Catherine Cabeen's Ich Bin Gleich Fertig →
Things I noticed/thoughts I had:
1) I need to be able to do my splits./be a lot more flexible to feel like a more legitimate dancer.
2) I miss the unified movement that is absent from this piece.
3) Much of the really contemporary stuff I’m seeing has a lot of “acro”—pulling, climbing, or stacking on each other.
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names
I know, already, I will need to know:
Twyla Tharp
Merce Cunningham
Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane
Martha Graham
Catherine Cabeen
John Cage
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I knew this would happen.
As soon as I let myself start doing research, I would be lost in it. (I have homework to do!)
I got a nod to my first reference (“Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance,”) and found my way to the dance section—a full six half-rows, stuck between the magic trick and Broadway sections. I noticed a couple things:
1) Most of the dance books just look so cool....
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Baryshinkov Arts Center - multimedia... →
The fourth performance down looks awesome, but the 20 second clip is so unsatisfying.
My twenty-first century demand for access to everything (free of pay) thinks, this should be available for me to see, in its entirety. But what would that mean for dancers? That they would go the way of musicians, and have their performances commodified and spread electronically? The aura of performance...
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closing the first act, there was crying behind the...
that was the first time my lungs burned (like in soccer)
from dance.
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verbal / visual
Yesterday I heard,
“Philosophy is verbal… or on paper.”
And I thought,
No.
For me,
philosophy is visual.
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