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

Some diligent bastard has put the whole thing up on yutube here Apparently CD-ROM still available for purchase here

Text as Interface

"Improvising choreography is like sculpting smoke. The idea is clearly there in front of you swirling and moving. It can be inhaled, felt in the lungs, tasted in the mouth. But it lacks substance, it cannot be grasped or molded. The only thing that can be physicalised is the effect the smoke had on your body whilst it was in there." Kristian Larsen

"Mimicry, I am more and more certain, is the fundamental performance of this cultural moment. At the heart of mimicry is a fear that the match will not hold and "the thing itself" (you, me, love, art) will disappear before we can reproduce it."

Peggy Phelan

"Either you're pretentious or a radical but straddling both lines makes you seem disingenuous to anyone familiar with either demographic"

Anon

"Whatever you are, whatever you commit to, it will somehow find a way to fuck you."

David Simon, The Wire

"They are not there to save us or perfect us (or damn or corrupt us), but rather to complicate things, to create more complex nervous systems no longer subservient to the debilitating effects of clichés, to show and release the possibilities of a life. "

John Rajchman

"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."

Sally Gardener, Manifesto

"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

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

Tim Etchells, Matthew Goulish

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'

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

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

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