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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: nudeworkii and text
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 01:46:49 -0400 (EDT)
nudeworkii and text http://www.alansondheim.org/Updownwards.mp4 foofwa dance/choreography, alan/azure, videography (all of these are from recent sessions featuring foofwa's choreography) nudity in dance - a\ reveals the totality of bodily movement b\ reveals the totality of involuntary bodily movement (weight and sway of breasts, testicles, penis) = humanimal c\ catalyst for arousal (dancers' erect nipples, penis - but dancing is often too intense for this) d\ frees the body from clothes/costuming e\ historically relates the body to everything from dionysian rituals to weimar performance (anita berber, others) f\ reveals the boundaries of the body's intrinsic extensions g\ reveals the history of the body through inscriptions (tattoos, shaved pubic hair, scars, cuts, bruises) h\ reveals the body's totality/vulnerability (aging, illness, spasms) i\ reveals the vulnerability of the sexual organs j\ simultaneously exposes and hides the sexual organs as a form of choreographic inscription k\ potential audience identification (sharing similar bodies) l\ uncanny relation to magical operations (parallel structures with audience) m\ to the extent that the audience is affected (aroused, gazing, turning aside, and so forth), the audience may move towards self-reflexivity n\ audience members might internally 'mimic' the dancers' movements (i.e. their own muscles remembering, tautening, etc.), another form of self- reflexivity o\ creates a problematic 'natural' p\ implies clothing as 'unnatural' or the use of clothing/costuming to indicate particular inscriptions - i.e. starting from the body as 'body-degree-zero' q\ 'might' seem more 'natural' and less erotic r\ 'might' tend more towards 'natural' representations of sexuality and less towards eroticisms bypassing and deflecting s\ 'might' reflect on the dancer's sexuality intrinsically and extrin- sically t\ 'might' say something about death/cadavers, and so forth choreographic inscription 16c16 < c\ catalyst for arousal (dancers' erect nipples, penis - but dancing is --- > c\ catylyst for arousal (dancers' erect nipples, penis - but dancing is 24c24 < h\ reveals the body's totality/vulnerability (aging, illness, spasms) --- > h\ reveals the body's totality/vulnerability (ageing, illness, spasms) 27c27 < choreographic inscription --- > choreographic inscrition nudity on webpages - problematic, issues of censorship and so forth problematic, more potentially sexual works remain offline the works become reflexive themselves, in the sense that they inhabit problematic spaces i tend to keep them up for very short times == current text file: http://www.alansondheim.org/qg.txt sondheim mail-text archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org sondheimat gmail.com, panix.com ==