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Aristotle and Improvisation

It is absurd to suppose that purpose is not present because we do not observe the agent deliberating. Art does not deliberate.

– Aristotle, Physics II.8, The Complete Works of Aristotle Vol. I. The Revised Oxford Translation, ed. Jonathan Barnes).

If Art does not deliberate and choreography can be seen as a form of deliberation, is, then, choreographed dance not art?

Is the art that choreography generates, then, the un-deliberated performance of its execution?

Does this mean, then, that the purest artistic form of dance is the least deliberated, i.e., absolute improvisation, when the phases of exploration, experimentation, and execution collapse into a singular event, when the artist is deliberating in the moment?

 

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A whole lot of dancin’ goin’ on!

I propose that there are 9 ways* to change the type of movement material with any given moment in an improvised dance.

If we are to take a dance of 10 minutes in length and say that the dancer can change the type of movement material every 30 seconds then there are 19 moments when the change can happen and have movement afterwards.

This means that there are 9 to the 19th power number of dances that are possible to create.

This leads us to

1,350,851,700,000,000,000

possible different dance choreographies if we are to look at moments of change in movement material.

 

*These changes will be elucidated later on. Stay tuned!

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mind/body

brain + body = mind

mind – brain = body

mind – body = brain

considering, however, that the brain is a subset of the body…

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The electoral college is unfair

Hillary won the popular vote by 566,434 votes. Why do we have the electoral college?!?!

For example, an electoral vote represents nearly four times as many people in California as in Wyoming.

– Miroff, Bruce; Seidelman, Raymond; Swanstrom, Todd (November 2001). The Democratic Debate: An Introduction to American Politics (Third ed.). Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0-618-05452-9.

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research

Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.

-Marie Curie, scientist, Nobel laureate (7 Nov 1867-1934)

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Foundation

To say that ballet is the foundation of dance is like saying that French Cuisine is the foundation of food.