the battle between steps and ideas in "downtown dance" … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2011
Thursday January 20:
Tuning in to tone … [Read more...]
Tuning in to tone with five dances and one movie
By the time I was nine, home was my mother, my sister, and I. We bickered in twos, with the third as chorus and tie breaker. Sometimes my sister would cut me off or my mother her with a complaint about "tone"--how she didn't "like it." It's a dread phrase, "I don't like your tone," because it implies that there isn't anything behind the tone to have excited it--or that there shouldn't … [Read more...]
Wednesday January 5
Now that your jaws are tired, I tell you about the Nuts I cracked. … [Read more...]