Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Exhausted Dance

I have been reading Andre Lepecki's criticism of modern dance for making the assumption that dance= continuous flow of movement. It also reminds me of Min Tanaka, who says he doesn't care if people think what he does is not dance anymore, and prefers improvisations in the outdoors to performances in theatres.

It is interesting how movement has dictated what we think of as dance, categorizing pedestrian movements as 'non-dance', and stillness as some sort of empty time. It is challenging to break entropy, whether it is moving or halted.

1 comment:

  1. These stops or halts or breaks seem to be becoming something key in the work...

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