Issue #9 - Body of Language/Figure of Speech

"The obsession with categories a priori is not a bad thing in itself. It can be an informative and educational way of understanding artists’ points of departure, and it avoids placing someone within the wrong judgmental brackets. To apply a set of philosophical/ideological beliefs that fit a specific historical period to works created in a radically different environment, informed by a more diverse array of voices and rooted in a more complex historical landscape, is a futile analytical exercise because it does not serve either the artist, the audience, or the work, with its rightful context.

"However emphasizing categories over what is actually happening on stage presents its own set of problems. The disappointment expressed in some of the dance writings I have come across lately exposes the gap between what artists are creating today and the nostalgia of many critics and dance scholars for an earlier time, and easier categories." --from The War at Home by Patricia Hoffbauer

Issue #8: a travel issue

"Every night lying in bed, under three blankets and sleeping, I have a strong feeling of how the human body is very, very soft, very unprotected. In a full darkness trembling under the mortar shelling, I can feel so clearly “their” intention to kill. This intention is so direct, so vulgar and simple at the same time. It is the real pornography. Sometimes the nights were so quiet, so dark, I couldn’t see my hand. It felt like being in a grave. Sarajevo now is a strange place, very surreal." --from Fragments of Sarajevo by Izeta Gradevic

Here is where I’m going to pick up our conversation, from alejandra’s email:

**more on the conceptual side, and possibly related to the previous topic,
i'm impressed by  Daghdha's capacity to state views of what dance is or

Mary Armentrout shares a site-specific dance video on the oak grove that was site of the longest tree sit-in in American history (December '06 to September '08) at UC Berkeley.

In April 2008, CC co-editor Levi Gonzalez tried to contact choreograph.net editor Jeffrey Gormly to establish a collaborative project between the two publications and their mother organizations - Movement Research for CC and Daghdha for choreograph.net.