"If a dancer dances – which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance or remembering in his body someone else’s dance – but if the dancer dances, everything is there. . . Our ecstasy in dance comes from the possible gift of freedom, the exhilarating moment that this exposing of the bare energy can give us. What is meant is not license, but freedom..." /Merce Cunningham/
2014. január 28., kedd
2014. január 24., péntek
when I don't know what to do with myself after dance class, I write about that I did when it wasn't necessary to know what I did
(method of Cunningham at the dance class)
This method is about the same idea what Borges had with a pocket of cards: you have all the cards, you just have to choose and make an arbitrary combination of them. Why don't do the same with words? Borges did it in his avant-garde period.And talking about dance, methode Cunningham, this is the following:
a group of dancers, (in this case we were organized in pairs or groups of 4 persons), has to make a choreography independently of each other (in this case of the pairs). And then they have to perform their own part, one after the other in an optional order.It was great. I'm afraid of pronounce it, but it was better then the pleasure of writing, alone in a hermeticly closed lonelyness, even if normally I prefer the lonelyness (and I hate that this word is infected of all negative senses ...)
Well, after all I wanted to open up and paint the town red but finally I went home cause I was tired like a sponge. So I wrote this:
berohan négy láb, malomvitorla négy kar,
gördülő rönkök, pörgő testek a földön.
egymás körül, óvatos de cinkos testvériségben
keringve lép be négy hosszú lábú gém
csőrük egyszerre csap le a fekete linóleum-víztükörre.
hirtelen rebbennek szét, aztán óvatosan
húzódnak össze körbe megint.
a látóhatár két sarkából mint világítótorony fénye
pásztázza a teret két pár karcsú váll,
hirtelen fut össze a lendület s gördül végig
a terem padlóján a borzongás.
közben bizonytalan rebbenéssel díszlépésben
csatlakozik a vonulathoz két kívülálló, de egyből
az áramlat közepébe rohannak, gördülnek,
egymásnak szembe fordul a padlón a két fej, csillag alakban a végtagok.
az utolsó hang egy-két-hár-négy
felrebbenő kar, egy-két elsuhanó mosoly...
2014. január 18., szombat
Variációk- A bárpultnál állt.
A bárpultnál állt.
Miért...gondoltam, vagy mért is ne
gondoltam volna...
gondoltam volna...
Egy harlekín arcának
átabota vonalaiba
átabota vonalaiba
gabalyodtam. Nem akartam
túl hosszú dialógust. Csak épp
túl hosszú dialógust. Csak épp
annyit, míg kibontom
pennám az összekuszált vonalakból.
Arcéle átvágta a zsineget
amire zavaromban
felfüggesztettem némaságom
.
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2014. január 13., hétfő
A propos avan-tgarde...
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Born in Centralia, Washington on April 16, 1919, Merce Cunningham was a leader of the American avant-garde whose constant innovation and artistic collaborations expanded the frontiers not only of dance, but also of contemporary visual and performing arts. Cunningham began his professional modern dance career at 20 with a six-year tenure as a soloist in the Martha Graham Dance Company. In 1944 he presented his first solo concert and in 1953 formed the legendary Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) as a forum to explore his groundbreaking ideas. MCDC was formed at Black Mountain College, and included dancers Carolyn Brown, Viola Farber, Paul Taylor, and Remy Charlip, and musicians John Cage and David Tudor. In its early years MCDC famously toured in a Volkswagen bus driven by John Cage with just enough room for six dancers, two musicians, and a stage manager, often visual artist Robert Rauschenberg. MCDC's first international tour, in 1964—which included performances in Western and Eastern Europe, India, Thailand, and Japan—marked a turning point for the Company and initiated a constant stream of national and international engagements.
Also in 1964, the Cunningham Dance Foundation was
established to sustain the Company and advance Cunningham's creative
work. In the decades that followed, the Foundation grew to support the
Company's Repertory Understudy Group, the Merce Cunningham Archives, and
the Merce Cunningham Studio. Located at Westbeth, the
historic artists' housing complex in New York City's West Village, the
Studio was a founding member of the National Association of Schools of
Dance and served as a home to MCDC from 1971 through 2011, offered
classes and professional training in Cunningham TechniqueTM,
and oversaw the Studio Program for Young Artists, which provided
affordable studio space and technical assistance to emerging artists.
Born in Centralia, Washington on April 16, 1919, Merce Cunningham was a leader of the American avant-garde whose constant innovation and artistic collaborations expanded the frontiers not only of dance, but also of contemporary visual and performing arts. Cunningham began his professional modern dance career at 20 with a six-year tenure as a soloist in the Martha Graham Dance Company. In 1944 he presented his first solo concert and in 1953 formed the legendary Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) as a forum to explore his groundbreaking ideas. MCDC was formed at Black Mountain College, and included dancers Carolyn Brown, Viola Farber, Paul Taylor, and Remy Charlip, and musicians John Cage and David Tudor. In its early years MCDC famously toured in a Volkswagen bus driven by John Cage with just enough room for six dancers, two musicians, and a stage manager, often visual artist Robert Rauschenberg. MCDC's first international tour, in 1964—which included performances in Western and Eastern Europe, India, Thailand, and Japan—marked a turning point for the Company and initiated a constant stream of national and international engagements.
MCDC cultivated a body of new music, commissioning more work from
contemporary composers than any other dance company. Its repertory
included works by musicians ranging from Cage and Christian Wolff to
Gavin Bryars and Radiohead. Cage’s association with the Company as
Musical Advisor since its inception continued until his death in 1992,
when he was succeeded by David Tudor. From 1995 to 2012, MCDC was under
the music direction of Takehisa Kosugi.
Over the years the Company collaborated with an array of visual
artists and designers. Rauschenberg, whose famous “Combines” reflect the
approach he used to create décor for a number of MCDC’s early works,
served as the Company’s resident designer from 1954 through 1964. Jasper
Johns followed as Artistic Advisor from 1967 until 1980, and Mark
Lancaster from 1980 through 1984. The last Advisors to be appointed were
William Anastasi and Dove Bradshaw in 1984. Other artists who have
collaborated with MCDC include Daniel Arsham, Tacita Dean, Rei Kawakubo,
Roy Lichtenstein, Bruce Nauman, Ernesto Neto, Frank Stella, Benedetta
Tagliabue, and Andy Warhol.
MCDC was featured extensively in film and video choreographed by
Cunningham. Frequent collaborators Charles Atlas, Nom June Paik, and
Elliot Caplan created historic dance films such as Life Time of Dance, Ocean, Split Sides, Beach Birds, Cage/Cunningham, and Points In Space.
2014. január 10., péntek
2014. január 9., csütörtök
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