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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: falling -
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:53:51 -0400 (EDT)
falling http://www.alansondheim.org/falling.mp4 from foofwa - in falling i use some movements from a solo merce cunningham made for me (in "enter" from 1992, premiered at the paris opera). when i reach a stable and still position, i am in balance, until i let myself fall in whatever direction my body takes me. in a way it is like the "butterfly effect" applied to dance: the determined is the series of movements and positions and the unpredictable is the direction of the fall. the degree of unbalance decides the speed in which the sequence is done, and the falling takes the body to a new situation: a new place, a new direction from which i will execute the next position. in other words, each time i proceed through the same succession of positions - but end up in a different place! (videography, azure carter, alan sondheim, leslie thornton)