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#2 thoughts / impacts

 


I was going to write a note on my phone and thought I should do it here so that I could share some (beginning of) thoughts. Going through Module 1, I cannot help but wonder: what had an impact on my professional life, on my approach to dance, to life, to art. Although I might mix inspiration and learning from experience tonight, I thought I should just get this out of my system. This is a very vague and probably non-sense-ish list. 

- Dada, Fluxus

- La Monte Young, "Draw a straight line and follow it"

- Chris Burden

- Georges Perec 

- Guy Debord - and my world twisted

- Lipstick Traces, Greil Marcus. Situationnism, Fluxus, Punk. The Art of building bridges.

- Alain Platel, everything from Alain Platel

°° Too many men on that list °° 

- King Kong Theory, Virginie Despentes

- The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir 

- The factories and the steelworkers, their anger, their poverty, their enslavement to their condition. 

- Italy - the far away country, the place they ran away from for a better life. 

- The dislocation between the mind and the body  - I loved reading about the embodiment in the doc though. 

- Kassel

- La Traviata

- The warm up classes in Kassel that made me think there was only one way to teach a good contemporary class. 1 aim = being warm and sweaty by the end of it. 

- TripSpace, the professional shared class I led in 2016 with Simonetta. 

- Making and teaching. 2 different things, feeding each other.

°°Let them fed each other °°

-  Being sick. Facing mortality. Not trusting the body for years. 

- Cranio-sacral therapy. Being part of nature. 

- Being pregnant, giving birth. Trusting the process. Trusting the body, finally. 

- one of my first job as a dancer: Sylvia. Watching her (reflection observation) work taught me to be a better collaborator. 

- In general = concrete experience vs. active experimentation. The importance of impatience in my learning process...?



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