Critical Correspondence
MR Festival 2009: Reflections on Private Dancing: Muck of Myself
by Clare Byrne MR Festival Spring 2009: Roll Call I liked the suggested reading for RollCall – The Gift by Lewis Hyde. The book compares our current economy of scarcity, where the wealthy hoard their profits by removing them from currency, with a gift economy in which wealth is systematically shared, re-gifted. The gifts themselves […]
Correspondence from Wanda Gala at the University of Limerick #2
Terrain and Territory The generation of land-based plastic and performance art is a concentrated effort in communicating relation. This association of body and terrain is a subjective process of linking cultural identity to our built environments 1: a symbiont discourse regarding the construction of place. Bourdieu, in his notion of habitus, refers to this idiomatic […]
Dark Matter
by Clarinda Mac Low On the eve of International Women’s Day I just happened to be reading an excerpt from Judith Butler’s book Bodies that Matter (1993) in an anthology called Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life. In her feminist philosophical inquiry, Dr. Butler questioned the “material irreducibility of sex” that […]
Correspondence from Daniel Linehan, PARTS #3: Going on
by Daniel Linehan I want to write about a performance from the inside. At PARTS, we recently learned and performed Jérôme Bel’s The Show Must Go On. If you haven’t seen it, the basic idea of the show seems pretty simple and straightforward. It is a show composed of 18 pop songs, where we do […]
Correspondence from Wanda Gala at the University of Limerick
February 25, 2009 This week I had the pleasure to attend seminars and workshops at the University of Limerick by Dr. Mats Nilsson, a Swedish dance ethnologist, historian and senior lecturer at the University of Gottenberg. Though the breadth of our study of Swedish dance culture was of intrigue, there was a particular element of […]
Correspondence from Martín Lanz: NY 1/2 (arriving)
by Martín Lanz Landázuri [Nota de los Editores: Están bienvenidos, lectores, a usar los comentarios como una plataforma linguÃstica en la que traducir las colaboraciones de Martin al inglés. Recomendamos traducir aquella frase que les capture más. Y agradecemos esta oportunidad de bilingüismo!] Hay dos impresiones iniciales, la nueva es que es un U.S. con […]
Age-Ing
by Clarinda Mac Low I’ve been trying to figure out how to reveal the inner experience of aging with words, and it has been unusually difficult to formulate a beginning. So I’m going to start simply, by mentioning my knee. And my back. And my ankle. And my teeth. And my ovaries. And the skin […]
Rhythm of perception o ritmo de la percepción
by Martín Lanz Landázuri [Nota de los Editores: Están bienvenidos, lectores, a usar los comentarios como una plataforma linguÃstica en la que traducir las colaboraciones de MartÃn al inglés. Recomendamos traducir aquella frase que les capture más. Y agradecemos esta oportunidad de bilingüismo!] Como cambia o se altera nuestra percepción cuando nos exponemos a distintos […]
Le Mot Juste
by Clarinda Mac Low We’re all sitting together, breathing, bounded by mortality, waiting to be transformed. Performance is where one minute lasts a lifetime—one moment out of so many, burned into your brain and body and echoing. One moment of transcendence can last an awfully long time. It’s outside of narrative time. It’s stuck in […]
Correspondence from Daniel Linehan, PARTS #2
Daniel watches three performances by ex-PARTS choreographers. Daniel Linehan is a 2007-2008 Movement Research Artist in Residence. In September ‘08, he began the two-year Research Cycle at PARTS in Brussels. He will periodically contribute posts to CC about performances and other happenings in Brussels. This weekend in Brussels, there were three separate shows from three […]
Correspondence from Daniel Linehan, PARTS #1
by Daniel Linehan This past September, Daniel Linehan began the two-year Research Cycle at PARTS in Brussels. He will periodically contribute posts to CC about his responses to performance in Brussels. Correspondence from Brussels #1: Halprin, Brown, and Burrows Re-Enacted — Thoughts on Enactment and Re-Enactment Before the Show: This week at the Kaaitheater in […]
MR Festival 2008: wikidancing: chase granoff at dtw by Eva Yaa Asantewaa
by Eva Yaa Asantewaa MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There one door closes and another opens again again again it’s hell in the hallway balls and blocks the scrape of the curtain rod the roar of the crowd no printer cartridges were harmed in the making of this performance hubbada hubbada hubbada shoosh the […]
MR Festival 2008: music and dance by Gelsey Bell
by Gelsey Bell MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There Tuesday, June 3rd was, for me, an extended meditation on the
relationship between music and dance. In Nancy Garcia’s workshop I’m wondering who could be singing this
song… the participants were given a momentary peak into Garcia’s
process of creating pieces. We experimented with two scores of Pauline
Oliveros […]
MR Festival 2008: Clean Slate Yvonne Meier, Stolen
by Jenn Joy MR Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There Darkness. Gym lights up, two tinfoil covered pods resting on the floor under the basketball hoop. Performing an almost absurd migration across the gym floor through a slow progression of twitches and tics, their approach and retreat is amplified by the crackling sound score of […]
