Jane Desmond
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Thanks for posting this
Thanks for posting this Anna. I hadn't known about these games, and checking out the site and the designer company found that they are already very popular abroad, with expert game players posting their versions of choreography on the web, along with ... -
These are great issues,
These are great issues, Anna! And I hope some others will jump in here even though our official "dance media" week is over. I especially love the challenge of tracking the interplay between learning, doing (in real time/space/body), and keyboard ... -
What a great
What a great discussion. Avi's last remarks about the utopian narratives have got me thinking about the way these shows smudge the line between so-called "professionals" and so-called "amateurs." Is the goal of winning competition ... -
Thanks for putting this up
Thanks for putting this up Dana. So much to think about here as you lay out in your opening comment. For quite a while I've been interested in thinking about how dance forms travel across community boundaries and across audiences, spaces, and places. ... -
Zachary, I loved this clip
Zachary, I loved this clip too and have been thinking about it over the last few days. Dana is right, footwear really_does_ make all the difference! But seriously, one of my favorite moments in this choreography, a sort of punctum, is the moment when one ... -
Yes Zachary I too find it
Yes Zachary I too find it remarkable, and thought provoking, that the naming of this as "dance"--the rhetorical act of categorization-- is so effective in facilitating its popularity. I went back to check tonight on YouTube and found that this c ...