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Po Mo

So I was at a meeting the other day and at the end of the meeting someone joked about doing something post-modern so that no one had to be good at anything. Why is there that idea about po mo? If it’s po mo I don’t have to be good at whatever I am doing. Definitely seen that at some shows. Saw this group Poni at Sophiensaele in Berlin. Did a lot of performing of things badly. Musicians “dancing”. I wonder if musicians would like it if the dancers picked up their instruments and started jamming.

I would say that there is a confusing of lack of hierarchy with lack of skill. Yes I could change the hierarchy with which I define my ballet skills and say that I am as good as Baryshnikov, but the defined hierarchy for ballet exists and comparing my ballet skills to that, well, pretty sad. lack of hierarchy or relativism does not mean complete rejection of all measurement of value.

hmmm….

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Dryers

Why is it that I get such satisfaction from washing clothes and not using the dryer? No, I don’t like to walk around in wet clothes. I hang my clothes to dry. It’s not just the buck and a quarter I am saving that makes me happy. I’ll just spend the money elsewhere. As we did tonight on sushi at Drunken Fish in Oakland.

But hanging clothes to dry, such visceral satisfaction. Why pay for something when it can happen for free. Also nice is to see the pile of laundry go down slowly. Is part of the reason the USA uses so much more energy because we do much more laundry? How many times to you wear a shirt before washing it? how about underwear or socks? Why do you or do you use the dryer?

The less you use the dryer the longer your clothes will last. Think about the lint. That is just money in the garbage. You paid for that lint when it was still part of your shirt or whatever before you stuck it in the dryer, so why throw it away?

Dryers and billboards should be banned. Just think about how much nicer cities would look if there were no billboards. Take a moment right now to think about it. No, I mean it really. Take a deep breath look away from the computer and think about a billboard free environment.

Okay, look back now.

Nice wasn’t it.

Kinda like Vermont.

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Sweater vs. Heater

I was in class today, large dance studio. Kind of a cold day, for the Bay Area, so the studio was cold. Another dancer in class asked if it was possible to turn on the heat. Considering the size of the room and the strength of most heater, by the time the room was warm class would have been over. She had another layer to put on, but that was not her initial thought.

Maybe I am stereotyping here, but I am guessing that a dancer in the Bay Area is a more liberal person informed on current events, global warming and green house gases. A sweater produces less CO2 than a heater, yet the idea of putting on a sweater, came after the thought of turning on the heat.

Reminds me of the time I was at a friends house. We were in the backyard barbequeing burgers, talking about the sustainability of the American lifestyle. As we walked inside, I saw his wife turn on the heat instead of putting on a sweater. Oh the sustainable lifestyle.

As for me, I am going to go back to watching a DVD on my laptop and eat some ice cream.

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Yoga Lemon

Yoga studios are a place of endless enjoyment. All the fit healthy people, smiling and blissful. The coordinated LuLuLemon outfits. Saw one lady the other day, all cute in her outfit. She was bending forward and more than peeking out was old granny underwear, blah beige and ragged looking.

Do not judge a book by its cover.

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Bows and Relenquising

Why do actors bow after a show? If they just spent the previous 1.5 hours creating a world, with lines and costumes and sets and music and emotions, why is it all dispelled at the end with a bow? Would you right after an amazing meal (god, i hate that word) take a swig of mouthwash? Having De Ja vu right now. Was this written already or just thought about?

yesterday had half a pot brownie and walked over to the Grand Lake Theater to see Ghost Rider. That movie was tongue in cheek. Either that or a Republican propaganda film. Are there really those fallen angels that represent the element, air, water, and earth? Is that how Christianity dealt with paganism? Take the Tree for X-mas, a bunny for Easter and then cast everything else away?

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Mental Stimulation

Just had a class with Shelley Senter. Did some Alexander and then choreography. What I noticed was that my brain is stimulated in a different way than when I do contact. Shelley’s movement, similiar to movement I have experienced at the Trisha Brown studios, (Shelley danced for Trisha for 5 years), stimulates my movement brain. After about an hour of that type of choreography I want to dance around in that manner or style, or using that style as a source.

Contact on the other hand, gets me into my conscious thinking brain. After a long session of contact I tend to sit still and just think. The less I think in my contact, the better the dance( in some sense), the more I think later. I really noticed this dutring the workshop I took last week with Martin Keogh. After day two, I was sitting at home reading. Well, actually not reading but sitting on the couch holding a magazine, staring at it, but thinking intensely, about all the sensations I had experienced, the rolls, spirals and pathways. That is where the thinking starts and then off into….

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Apply to get produced

Am currently in the midst of putting stuff together to send to various theaters to get produced. Kind of a pain.

Here is my brilliant idea-

Send the DVD with an email address to the theater. They watch it and then email you back.

Why all the letters of intent, resumes, cards?

The work is the work

fuck the details

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The Solution to Iraq

So it’s like a triangle of violence. The Shias hate the Sunnis. The Sunnis hate the Shias. And both of them hate the Americans. The Americans are there to stop the voilence between the Shia and the Sunni. The sooner they calm down, the sooner the Americans will leave.

So if the Sunnis and the Shia agree to a cease fire till the Americans leave and then wait a little bit after the Americans leave, they can then get back to the business of killing each other without interference by the Americans.