February 2012
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“Beyond the purely expressive powers of movement there is also its highly...”
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Improv Diary 5: Things to keep in mind when...
Beware
disorganized & over signified movements
energy skipping parts of your body; that is, hands and feet irradiating something (intention/energy/awareness whatever you want to call it) but somehow the legs are amiss, lost, obscured.
Notes
there’s “oversignification” when there is a lack of meaning/intention/awareness in the parts of the body that execute the movement
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Improv Diary 4.5: Notes on effective...
Better to look obsessively for one thing than look arbitrarily for anything
Better a simple objective than no objective–unless, of course, your objective is being lost/chaos/etc.
Stick to it.
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Improv Diary 4: Dancing after an injury
I should have written this a long long time ago. At the bare least I should have written the entry in the same month said improvisation happened. But I couldn’t. On December 23 I had to undergo surgery. This entry chronicles my first impro after that medical intervention.
There was fear. An anxiety. Of reinjury, of course. But also of poor performance, of not measuring up. Of the...
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“For the audience, shamefully, an onstage injury is not just a misfortune. It’s...”
– Joan Acocella
January 2012
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“A few years ago, I read an interview with Paul Taylor in which he said: “I don’t...”
– Alexandra Tomalonis
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December 2011
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“Go with the flow. Take your time. Don’t judge your own worth by comparing it to...”
– From 8 Things Yoga Thought Me About Life
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“Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is...”
– B.K.S. Iyengar
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Improv diary: 3. Notes on effective dance/movement...
You might not know where you are going or what the next step is going to be, but you know where you are and you know what you are doing.
Articulate
Integrate
Think, but not too much; be present.
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Record Keeping
Location: Beta-Local
Coach/Experience partner: Noemí Segarra.
Associated to: Proyecto Piso
Date: 15/Dic/11
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Improv Diary: 2. Dancing in the street
Scared, intimidated, insecure, just plain lost and confused… I experimented all of these things at some point today. It never got to crisis point. They were almost always subtle, a steady current running below my skin underneath all the possibilities that the day brought forward. We had an improvisation marathon. On the street, right in the middle of a very transited area. Our stage: a...
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Improv Diary: 1. Caught up in an improvisation
Yesterday was the first day in 2 months that I improvised. I started doing it almost without noticing. Somehow between warming up and undoing the muscle knot from hell I had somewhere on the left side of my lower back, I ended up caught up in an improvisation, carried by a slow but steady momentum to do something, be something, create and become. And I felt the wisdom gained during those 2 months...
November 2011
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“I would believe only in a god that knows how to dance.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via fuckyeahcontemporarydance)
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“Dance is action and shape
designed in space and time
to express feelings and...”
– Bill T. Jones, DANCE (via artistsintheclassroom3)
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“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot...”
– Elizabeth Taylor (via prettytoughdancesport)
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October 2011
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“Unfortunately, we misrepresent the value of the arts in comparison to the...”
– Safi A. Thomas, Artistic Director of The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory in NYC
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Let go and grow. Go!
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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker statement about...
Food for thought on the copyright issue between Belgian choreographer De Keersmaeker and Beyonce’s video:
Beyoncé is not the worst copycat, she sings and dances very well, and she has a good taste! On the other hand, there are protocols and consequences to such actions, and I can’t imagine she and her team are not aware of it.
To conclude, this event didn’t make me angry, on the...
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“It’s always unexpected. No one predicted Tahrir Square. No one imagined tens of...”
– Tom Engelhardt on Occupy Wall Street. Keep reading … (via utnereader)
September 2011
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“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a...”
– Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren (via think-progress)
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Angry pseudo self-help tip of the day
Look for that goddamned answer, even if you have no idea where to find it. Even if you know you won’t find it. After all, the point is not the answer itself, but to answer. To respond more than just react.
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Pay attention to your email, “Re:” = to answer.
React. Reply. Respond. Refashion. Redo. Recycle even… if you dare. Dare. Most definitely dare. And remake. Reinvent. Reuse. Recreate. Research. Re-search. (Re)search. Re: search.
August 2011
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Little tip for improvisation (in dance, movement...
You don’t need to have the answers, much less The Answer. But you do need to answer.
(To) Answer –verb (used without object) 9. to speak or write in response; make answer; reply. 10. to respond by an act or motion. 11. to act or suffer in consequence of (usually followed by for ). 12. to be or declare oneself responsible or accountable (usually followed by for ). to be satisfactory or...
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The answers
I’m starting to like not having the answers. It’s not causing me the anxiety it used to.
I like not having the answers. It incites me to search, and research. It gives me the space to take a question in, to turn it over.
And over.
And yet again.
And to create something in the process.
I may not have the answers. But I’ve got the method.
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27 años (aunque bien se pudo haber titulado 25...
Photo by: Leanne Surfleet
Es una cosa seria
tener veintisiete años
en realidad es una
de las cosas más serias
en derredor se mueren los amigos
de la infancia ahogada
y empieza a dudar uno
de su inmortalidad.
-Roque Dalton, o el hombre por quien aprendí a amar la poesía.
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Ráfagas de Tiros. Un helicóptero (que yo sepa). Sweet Caribbean Symphony.