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Baywood, CA
Montaña de Oro, CA (Spooner's Cove)
Bishop's Peak, San Luis Obispo, CA
Morro Bay (Morro Rock), CA
San Luis Obispo, CA1.4.2009Wow, I can’t believe I have not written. Life really does fly by. I have been the laziest son well… daughter of a bitch. (That sounds bad... sorry mom.) I mean I’ve been doing a lot… a lot of hanging out. A lot of exercising and be in my optimum dancer body, sans studio and indoor rehearsals... A lot of buying things that I don’t need, then going through my storage unit and keeping everything. I am trying to get rid of some nick-knacks and sentimentalities, but it’s not working. I look at the things I own and think… “Someday, when I have a house, I will put this in it somewhere and use it.” I don’t want to bring anything back to NY because my roommate will just throw it away. I can’t trust him around objects. But I can’t keep all of my things in a vault.Everything has been in storage for almost four years. That’s a long time to be separated from a life that was not quite right--without a thorough visitation. Graduate school was such a dream. Things were set-up and people just did a lot of thinking and made art and worked on papers. It was really hard, I don’t want to make it sound simple or easy… I honestly thought it would lead me to something, like a job. I’m still trying to understand what I gained from my experience there, besides debt. I know. I remember now. One of my crucial decisions in going to school there was because it was close to my grandparents.......I keep asking myself what’s wrong with me? The past 8 months on the road those questions surface… what’s wrong with me? For many years it is easy to blame others for personal or professional misfires, but when one spends so much time alone that question is both surprising and inevitable amidst the bliss of such a trip. The travel. The life. The past 8 months have been the best of my life, which states much. I have traveled in Nepal and hiked in the Himalayas. I have spent three-months living in London and a month in Vienna at a fantastic dance festival. And many other events which could lead to a full anthology of Berkeley, Olympia, Seattle, Portland, Columbus, San Luis Obispo and now New York/Brooklyn/Dominicahassidica.The past months brought me something that I have been missing my whole life, a true connection with this landmass. I was able to see such amazing natural beauty, ponder the people of this land, spend time with Isadora, go wherever I wanted when I wanted, and figure my artistic body and expand my choreographic voice. The independence was exhilarating. In NY I am depressed roughly fifty-probably-sixty percent of the time, while traveling, toward the end, when I was used to seeing new things all the time and could anticipate my encounters, then my depression entered the van. That’s when I stopped blaming anyone else but myself. The depression changed into a puzzle. What did I do? How could I change it? Could I change anything? Do I care? I like the way I am, why would I want to change? I am still pondering these things and wondering if the energy I put into thinking about other people is a personal barrier. Or is it just the way I look? I’ve wondered that too. I’m not pretty, I’m not ugly; although, I know can be beautiful in the right light. My body is not great. Perhaps I’m just so averagewowmid-sentence I fell asleep for 45 minutes. Not very interested in non-existent issues. Many other things to think about, or just sleep. Sleeping is an entirely acceptable place to go when pondering one’s own looks.Onward and outward
Morro Bay (Morro Rock), CA
Avila Beach, CA
San Luis Obispo, CA... Sunrise... with Isadora
Modul-dance interviewed the Greek artist Patricia Apergi during a residency at Graner Barcelona to create Planites. She talks about the concept developed during the creation process.
More modul-dance videos on Numeridanse.tv.
The Moebius Strip by Gilles Jobin
This seems to be choreographed and performed specifically for video. The dancers are in a studio with a black background so that they immediately stand out, as they begin to move, twirling and intertwining within each other, the camera begins to move in closer. It is as if we the viewer are a participant. The music is haunting as if from a sci-fi thriller and the slower and steady camera movement and jump cuts work in partnership with the sound.
The movement is slow and pedestrian, the dancers walk, stand, crawl, sit around and on each other. Honestly if it weren’t a well produced and edited video it would be an insanely boring to watch despite the story progression, costume changes and set and lighting changes.
As a visual artist I appreciated the cinematography, work and dedication awarded to the video project.
One Flat Thing by William Forsythe
This particular video the camera is distant and still as a silent observer. The dancers fill a large ballroom or hall. In the foreground stand several rows of wooden tables. There is a feeling of a cafeteria present. The dancers one by one travel downstage toward the tables and begin what seems to be an improvisational performance, climbing, dancing, and laying on, under and around the tables. The only sounds we hear are the dancers moving about. I think the idea is best suited for a live performance. I felt the need to be more present in the space and closer to the dancers than what the camera allowed.
When the exploration in dance and technology goes beyond the stage it is not traditional top-down choreography, it becomes an improvisation. Dance 2.0 might include a bottom-up architecture of marketing and communication. Many artists have already used this bottom-up approach to build and perform works.
We swim in improvisational media and we will be continually reformulating "creation".
We are coming out as "polytheistic" therefore we sample. Oblivious of our remixing and recombining we "build/create"...and repack as"style" or "artist voice".
Here are some links to some main stream (very important to aware of) articles about the dance world (companies and presenters) exploring the WWW:
Misnomer's article in Dance Magazine
Recent New York Times's article
Conference in Los Angeles on technology and marketing organized by Dance USA
Improvisational/generative media and performances are 2.0
These might be the "Future of Dance"
bottom-up architectures
shared creation
Ashley Friend created a relevant integration for her performance at Joyce Soho. She asked her You Tube account to make a video about dance and help her to find the meaning of dance. She got many video responses and used them as video material for the video segments and movement explorations.
https://www.youtube.com/profile?user=AsertyDances
In the next video shows Ashley "crowdsourcing"...completing a mediation loop
In the performance that attendded, 3 members of the audience (You Tubers) have travelled to NYC to attend the performance and watch.
This experiment was not registered in the radar of Julie Bloom from the New York Times nor by the Dance Magazine collaborator.
Portable, affordable, pervasive, open source...composite and extensible
Bottom-up indeed
Channeling the www...many writers
