THROWdisposablechoreography: William Forsythe: Improvisation Technologies- A Tool for the Analytical Dance Eye

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"But cultures have their problems. Probably their most difficult is their success. They become anal and decadent."
Steve Paxton

"The role of art is to serve no purpose - which is not to say that art lacks purpose...The political in art lies in its refusal to be an instrument. Art speaks only for itself. However this does not make it mere fantasy. Art is deeply committed to the world: it is definitely of the world."
from Sally Gardener's Manifesto

Brackets2 this time in Yvonne Rainer: (Artist as Exemplary Sufferer) (Artist as Self Absorbed Individualist) (Artist as Changer of the Subject) (Artist as Medium) (Artist as Ventriloquist) (Artist as Failed Primitive) (Artist as Failed Intellectual) Artist as Transcendental Ego (Artist as Misfit)
Christof Migone

Beckett- "I speak of an art weary of puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further down a dreary road."

Duthuit- "And preferring what?"

Beckett- "The expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express."
Samuel Beckett; 'Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit'

Types of Failure

1. Accident
2. Mistake
3. Weakness
4. Inability
5. Incorrect Method
6. Uselessness
7. Incompatibility
8. Embarrassment
9. Confusion
10. Redundancy
11. Obsolescence
12. Incoherence
13. Unrecognizability
14. Absurdity
15. Invisibility
16. Impermanence
17. Decay
18. Instability
19. Forgetability
20. Tardiness
21. Disappearance
22. Catastrophe
23. Uncertainty
24. Doubt
25. Fear
26. Distractability

Matthew Goulish/Tim Etchells

"By universalizing the spirit of opposition, the avant-garde’s project has transformed the practice of art into a purely negative enterprise, in which art is either oppositional or it is nothing. Celebrity replaces aesthetic achievement as the goal of art."

Roger Kimball

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

William Forsythe: Improvisation Technologies- A Tool for the Analytical Dance Eye

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