The Movement Research Performance Journal is sending an open call for contributions.
The piece is the 2nd part of the 30th Anniversary Portfolio called 30/30. We are asking 30 artists to give their response to the following question:
Which ideas have had/should have/will have the most influence on dance in the 21st century?
Perhaps the destabilization of institutions, decomposition of traditional forms of reference, and deconstruction of heretofore unshakable first principles about the human condition|situation will thoroughly vitalize our species’ creative effort, and send the discipline of dance shooting into a completely new orbital path. Soon, dancers and philosophers, scientists and other pattern makers, actors and social choreographers, science fictioneers, imagineers, will begin to work together to mend our broken perceptual apparatus and devise wholly new ways of seeing and being in this world|s. all efforts will be predicated on aesthetic principles, movement and change will be the rule. This golden age of choreonautics will grow new humans who surf cosmic forces at work in our reality, negotiating a future as they are being born, simultaneously observing and inhabiting a communicational matrix we live by|in|through. It’s time to start playing for real…
Yes.
Death of a species, our species, looms apparent as real possibility in the eyes of many who have held positions of security and power. This security and power brings with it time and space that allows for activities other than the motions of basic survival. And many of those who have had their eyes firmly fastened by necessity on the basic motions of survival are now finding an easing, an opening, into a more secure stance, from which they will have the time and space in which to voice their being. So, the song changes with the mix of who is singing.
But death of a species still looms as a real possibility. And this consideration invites, requests, demands a shift, a change… movement. Death reminds us of how exquisite life is, and invites us to cherish it in this moving moment. Despite our fears of change and the unknown, neither can be avoided except by denial, stasis and living-death — which will surely be the response of many. And yet, the movers… will move, explore, dare, challenge, and establish relationship to each other, yes, but even more importantly recognize and begin to live in relationship to our living world in new ways. I think Descartes is décapité or at least dépassé.
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Ann Moradian
pranastretch@yahoo.com
www.affinitiz.com/space/perspectivesinmotion
by Ann Moradian at 12 September, 11:06 AM