Thanks to all concerned for a wonderful session just now, the first meeting between the academics from the BDA, TNUA, the UK and the USA. It was a fascinating and deeply rewarding discussion. Below is the brief summary of themes from the previous Friday’s meeting which I addressed at the beginning the session:
- Intercultural politics of modernity
- the manner by which past and present exchanges across culture might change or affect performance practice and its critique;
- The real/authentic
- Jianmen’s idea of ‘use it or lose it’ – a matter of where the work comes from bodily or culturally; how do practitioners relate to traditions they work within?
- relational practice
- how the work reflects different linguistic, cultural and physical relations between its participants, as well those between observers and the practice;
- rehearsal room affect or feeling and its generation
- the significance given to different sorts of feeling by choreographers as well as to movement per se;
- macro and micro perspectives
- e.g. falling as a performative practice of uncertainty and waiting: in body, thematically and more widely in culture;
- logics of practice or process
- How practitioners ‘work out’ what they do – in advance or in the room.
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