February 2012
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"Some died if there was no music to accompany... →
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Stand with some people in a circle. Duck in and out with syncopated power lunges. Punch your fists at nothing.
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Bodies Against Time →
What happens when we abstract motion from the body?
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Lie down on the floor and get very quiet. Allow your flesh and bones to turn into sediment: solid, but shifting with the passage of time.
Old as earth, notice small changes, adjustments, accommodations to your current landscape.
January 2012
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A partial list of words from MR Studies Project,...
Hunkering. Jazz hands. Circulation. Animation. Gift. Value. Economy. Compensation. / Soft, open, aware, body. Presence. Intention. Space. Intervention. Ethics. Immanence. Magic. Patronage. / Proscenium. Witness. Active. Passive. Bypass. Dynamic. Directly. Settle in. Engage. Crony Capitalism. Catharsis v. Participation. / Choreographic. Arrangement. Bodies. Space. Skills. Transmit. Labor....
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Cultivate a feeling of constant falling.
Tilt your head forward and allow your body to catch up.
Cultivate a feeling of constant falling.
Begin to carve the space. Surf the air. Surf the floor.
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Contact Gonzo
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imagine that you are giving one fantastic,...
stand up somewhere and let your eyes rest.
imagine that you are giving one fantastic, symphonic performance for all humanity. it will be composed of all of the elements and proceses that are already happening inside your body. blood traveling around, air flowing in and out, muscles, nerves, tissue and bone endlessly readjusting, cells replicating and dying. you don’t even have to invent any...
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December 2011
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Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher!...
Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And do not forget your legs either. Lift up your legs too, you good dancers; and better yet, stand on your heads! (…) Zarathustra, the dancer; Zarathustra, the light one who beckons with his wings, preparing for a flight, beckoning to all birds, ready and heady, blissfully lightheaded; (…) You higher men, the worst about you is that...
November 2011
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In addition to performers, mass dance classes required a chairman, a dance...
– Mark Franko The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement and Identity in the 1930s
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