Monday, February 25, 2019
naked bare (bear) pieces: music - and other "helpers"/facilitators/enzymes of/for movement
it feels almost like getting off drugs, because in my current state it is so easy to move in response to musical stimulation on all levels.
I had always made it my point to dance as a Gesamtkunstwerk, using my own bodymind as the core system, where all would come together, be perceived, worked with, each at its own intensity (in a way, following through on Elaine Summers' notion of intermedia, where two or more media merge to in-form a "third" ... )
but now I am returning to the sense that just my moving body is enough justification for the dance to be "legitimate", worth the effort and the attention. and that without the extra stimulus/happening, my bodymind can and will have some quite different things to do / "say", on its own.
additionally I also increasingly enjoy dancing naked (easy enough in my home backroom/studio)
again there is a similar feeling of bare openness of myriads subtle possibilities and chances.
finally, I recognize that -just as in the first phase of Kinetic Awareness® (echoing Viewpoints)- it can be good to slow everything down and explore one element / bodypart at a time. in this case the / my moving human bodymind, on its own, with only the co-incidental sounds that John Cage rightly identified as music.
and challenge the idea of a 'machine' with a limiting, and more safely expectable, outcome / result ...
on a similar plane, but not the same:
And this then began to bother me because perhaps I was getting drunk with melody [...] and so I began again. [...] That led me to some very differnt writing that I am going to tell you about in the next thing. Gertrude Stein, from Portraits and Repetition, "Lectures in America", 1934
Sunday, February 24, 2019
male abandon - conceiving/dreaming of group pieces
after having enjoyed beyond words the enormously stimulating (!) public research by
much of the work is made for gay and Queer men who already by their sexual practices are not enjoying the same kind of mainstreamed-culture protection.
but in the basics, I am surprised how much a male thing it seems to be, to go for abandoning the self, surrendering to the impuls, the risk, beckoning a partner for mating, daring to give it all away for this one moment of maybe procreating (...)
this to me, also from personal experience, seems to be a centrally male quality in a sense.
and how far it may permeate other choices.
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the Moving Futures webpage exists no longer, instead here is a link to the project
Monday, February 11, 2019
Budapest quotes
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Gustav_Mahler
"if it ain't impossible to begin with, at the very least, it's not worth my time or attention" (unknown)