Comments on: Taking the Imperfect Leap http://old.movementresearch.org/criticalcorrespondence/blog/?p=251&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taking-the-imperfect-leap Critical Correspondence is an artist-driven project of Movement Research that aims to activate, develop and increase the visibility of critical discourse on dance and movement-based performance work. Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:27:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.29 By: What’s In a Name? « Critical Correspondence http://old.movementresearch.org/criticalcorrespondence/blog/?p=251&cpage=1#comment-16 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:39:34 +0000 http://www.movementresearch.org/criticalcorrespondence/blog/?p=251#comment-16 […] What do we take away from performance? The answer to this question is in many ways entirely subjective and constantly mutating. Do different defined disciplines of performance leave us with distinctly different traces? Is what we take away from “theater” different from what we take away from “dance” or “music,” and if so how? I put scare quotes around these names because the line between the disciplines is often blurry—is opera theater, or music? Does it matter? I sometimes think that these labels can mislead and limit us, but I know my view is skewed by my own performance practice, which is squarely situated in the interdisciplinary, and by the performance world I live in, where most everything is fair game in getting the point across. […]

]]> By: Alejandra http://old.movementresearch.org/criticalcorrespondence/blog/?p=251&cpage=1#comment-9 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:06:05 +0000 http://www.movementresearch.org/criticalcorrespondence/blog/?p=251#comment-9 good point
Submitted by clarinda on Mon, 05/12/2008 – 4:28pm.

Ruthe makes a good point here–all ideas start out in the soup of brain. The Words are or just one stage. i think i mean–can an idea that is not represented in words still be given the weight of an idea that is represented in words?

]]> By: Alejandra http://old.movementresearch.org/criticalcorrespondence/blog/?p=251&cpage=1#comment-8 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:04:42 +0000 http://www.movementresearch.org/criticalcorrespondence/blog/?p=251#comment-8 Comment posted by Ruthie, May 2nd 2008:
Of course ideas can be non-verbal! The verbal is just a different stage of the idea. But as soon as you put an idea into words it becomes a different thing, which is circumscribed by the words. It is an idea, but not exactly equivalent to the idea that was non-verbal before it got verbalized.

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