Puzzle pieces – the multi-faceted world of Trisha Brown
Certainly for everyone with interest in performance art ‘The man walking down the side of a building’ was an early subject of study. And who would have not known Mangolte’s iconic image of ‘Roof...
View ArticleOrgans with limbs
Isabelle Schad’s ‘Collective Jumps’ is an ambitious dance piece offering refreshingly unexpected views. But after its premiere last November I was hesitant to write about it as I could not come to...
View ArticleBlurring as affect on the nervous system
Affirmatively watching a dance piece will affect your mirror neurons subconsciously, but there are works which obviously address an even deeper level than seeing motion sequences. Pieces like Kat...
View ArticleDance and Finance—Social Kinesthetics and Derivative Logics
This lecture entitled Dance and Finance—Social Kinesthetics and Derivative Logics by Randy Martin had been given at the 9th October 2013 at EMPAC in Troy, NY. It has been a commissioned talk, in which...
View ArticleDrawn into DrawnOnward
Concepted by Jeremy Wade DrawnOnward is a collaboration with the choreographer Juli Reinartz, musician and co-performer Marc Lohr, writer John-Erik Jordan, costume designer Grzegorz Matlag and...
View ArticleTrisha Brown
Trisha Brown – amazing and iconic figure in the arts, dance and explorer of movement died four days ago. NYT obituary – and just found: a detailed description especially on her early work in The...
View ArticleDance and Finance—Social Kinesthetics and Derivative Logics
UPDATE 04/2017: In an interesting essay Mckenzie Wark examines the work of Randy Martin mainly focusing on Martin’s Knowledge LTD: Towards a Social Logic of the Derivative (2015). Wark shows how...
View ArticlePavement
UPDATE 20.Nov: See here for a review in the Guardian. A.I.M.’s piece Pavement is a gem, a real ‘must see’, in interdisciplinary choreography. While I was visiting with little more pre-information than...
View Articledancing with gravity – a love supreme by Keersmaeker / Sanchis
“You can’t dance beyond gravity, but you can relate to it. You can consider it not only as something that limits us but also as something that defines us. You can dance with it …” (Keersmaeker in the...
View ArticleZoomed: a doing with and caring though words
The previous year, only a few events had brought me out and about to see a show, a performance, or lecture. When asked to write a brief exhibition-year-review my mind went blank – what had I seen?...
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