Makes sense, Christopher. P'raps, like other-field de-sensitizing
techniques, it forces our connection-making brains to do what meditation
does.
Apart from the humour in such exercise-dance, or an utterly silent and
no-movement play, we do scramble to 'fill in' with meanings. We become
quiet frantic, in fact. Try watching a first-timer at meditation.
BTW, without more [um, and better] television, how will we sell our
products?
Best,
Judy
2008/12/7 Christopher Walker <[log in to unmask]>
> <snip>
> Like modern dance. The metaphoric art of it rivals
> poetry.
> <snip>
>
> To my mind one of the joys of much dance is its absolute exclusion or
> excision of what is metaphoric, its creation of experience that is un-
> glued
> up by language and/or thought, where the butterfly isn't yet in and indeed
> may _never_ be in that particular killing jar after all.
>
> In the early 80s Jan Fabre's company gave performances whose _theatrical_
> movement was likewise unmetaphoric: becoming physically exhausted meant
> taking up the amount of audience time that process actually needed for
> example, say half an hour or so of running on the spot. Limited, obviously,
> but useful in its context and at that time. Richard Maxwell's more recent
> de-gesturings of dialogue and movement seem to me further expeditions in a
> terrain that may be slightly similar.
>
> Of course, what one absolutely doesn't want is more and better television.
>
> CW
> _______________________________________________
>
> Dozens have gone missing, the decision taken is Elsewhere.
> but yes, yes we remain as poetry, pure immateriality.
> in the name of the 'current state of things' they murmur to us:
> "we went for a stroll, now it's a question of marching!" But this
> stroll of ours has brought us a long way off, and now
> the horizon is behind us.
>
> (from *Materiali*, Indiani Metropolitani 1977)
>
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