Doug Fox of Great Dance, whose questions started off my last post, "How NOT to write, so dance will matter," has more questions for me!! Or, rather, he'd like me to answer what he asked in the first place: how might the Internet and other recent technologies help to attract a larger dance audience? Doug, thank you for your persistence and your concern for dance's future. Here are Doug's questions, … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2006
How NOT to Write, So Dance Will Matter
Last week, Doug Fox -- of the web site Great Dance, which works to bring to dance the benefits of technology -- sent me this searching comment: To follow up on your remark that modern dance's intent is "to communicate in a language that you have to construct every time all by yourself -- that is deeply individual even though it belongs to a family of tongues," how do you think dance audiences … [Read more...]
A reader asks: if we think of a performance as a cover, do we fail to acknowledge its unique nature? Apollinaire responds
A reader who goes by the alibi sharkskingirl responded to the post below, about "covers," with this question: In a conference about Marina Abramovic's "Seven Easy Pieces" from last fall, Peggy Phelan referred to Abramovic's performances as "covers"-- a somewhat synesthetic approach. I wonder about how we engage with pieces we've known in some non-live form before we experience them live. I wonder … [Read more...]