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July 27, 2009
Merce Cunningham, 1919-2009
Why walk when one can leap?
Move as if you've forgotten everything you thought you evr knew about how to pass, kick, fall and run;
Break everything down into independent constituent parts, recombine, overlay (simultaneous unisons that are not in unisons, duos that are not together, etc.);
Prowling.
Count like a dancer, steps neither in clock-time nor in musical time;
The dance is distributed among the spines of the dancers, the dancers distributed throughout the entire available space, "front" is wherever in space each individual dancer faces;
Aquire movement everywhere: from animals, pedestrians, the computer, stepdance, ballet;
Torsos turn.
Events: constant interplay between practice, composition and repertoire;
Dancers, musicians, artists working simultaneously but not at the same thing;
When do you ever find time to breath?
Feet. Can't. Fail.
Originally from Renewable Music, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jul 27, 2009 at 08:10 PM