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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: dance
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:08:47 -0400 (EDT)
eyebeam: http://eyebeam.org/blogs/alansondheim/ dance we just came back from a dance discussion event at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. why are dancers so optimistic? the topic was dance education and everyone was excited. there were videos and photographs that were also cheering. I keep thinking of the opposite, of the depressive constructs of my own work, its self-indulgent wallowing, its emphasis on _this_ body as opposed to a communal or healing body. virtuality drives me to this position, reality drives me elsewhere. is slaughter - of humans, animals, plants, cultures, languages - the only conceivable future horizon? in the long term all of this */he waves his arms around in an all-encompassing gesture/* will disappear; information itself will dissipate to the substance of irreconcilable differences. what then? what will happen to these dances, these complex choreographies, these histories of somatic knowledge, these very ancestries? where are the ancestors who will hear us, who will answer us, who will keep the universe alive? where are they? where are they? */he raises his arms in supplication/*
