While the office has continued all summer, today, with the return of the dancers, Bonnie, company class and myself to full time, there is the typical first day of school feeling.
One of the things I want to do is write here more often, to find a way to use this blog as a forum of ideas and questions about contemporary dance (and performance in a wider sense.)
Lists are a blog cliché, and so lets start with that. (I've always been a fan of going to what a form does well)
A list of upcoming topics.
(if you have ones you're specifically interested, please say so in the comments, and that will help to kick my ass a bit and start the conversations)
- Text and Dance (Vienna workshop)
- Distance - Irony, "meaning it" and intimacy
- Limits and rules and why they might be good and important
- "Public" or "Audience": how do these words matter
- Professionalism - types, importance.
- Arbitrary choices. How they might not be (arbitrary) and how to avoid nihilism
Ok. That's a start of the list. Questions are also welcome. Just put them in the comments (we like comments.)
jz
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These are all really worthy topics, but I'd really like to read about 'meaning it', and I'd also like to read your comments on text and dance from the city that invented the croissant.
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