Archive for October, 2009
For a long time, the gap between my living experience as a performer and my ability to fully and accurately articulate the elements of performance has bothered me. Subsequent to my last post, a very interesting dialogue occurred between noform and myself, and it got me thinking (again) about how to better articulate my own ... [ READ MORE ]
Emerson College in Boston, MA will host a day of Grotowski-related events on October 30. More info: [pdf] ... [ READ MORE ]
This wonderful festival is already underway, but it’s exactly the kind of thing that readers of this forum should find interesting… UP IN THE AIR, THE BALTIMORE AERIAL FESTIVAL, OCT 9-11 IN THE ALLEYWAY OF LOAD OF FUN The most daring, magical, and poetic family festival to fly through Baltimore Featuring Baltimore’s best aerialists in a variety of out ... [ READ MORE ]
I have sometimes been heard to complain that the artistic production culture in New York City is excessively product-oriented, to the extreme detriment of the quality of this work. I now realize that an element of this issue, which I’ve never consciously thought of before, has been the lack of a strong, principled stand on ... [ READ MORE ]
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Two rhythms. The first is unbroken, like a river. I know this as the rhythm of musicality – of song. The river of song. It is not less precise, but its precision is less conscious. “I” do not control it. “I” surrender to it. Let it guide me. I do not know what will happen in the next moment. It takes me and pulls me ... [ READ MORE ]
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