RAT Dancing girls & other stories

[Handy Capt <handycapt@yahoo.com>]

Thanks, Jack, for the support!

And theres another good thing about doing your own
physical work in arts, the actual act of doing, the
actual act of thinking with ones body, yknow, I feel
like the theoretical stuff i read and write and study
and think about sometimes only start to click when my
body gets to think about it while I work out, stretch
or dance... I feel like I'm searching for an
"impossible" total self as much as for an impossible
total theatre, like I'm on a sacred Atraudian mission
or something that goes deep into yet far beyond
theatre.  It seams, with all this technology,
installations, performances etc. going on we lost the
art of actually doing, forgot how it feels to
struggle, acquire a technique, work daily, for hours,
lost a sense of time and all that.

Then there is the pain, which can be good sometimes,
since it helps puts us back into the centre of
selfhood in a way, wakes us up, well me anyhow, ...
And the general positivity of being physically active
as far as psychological/mental/intellectual well being
is concerned.

I was also thinking, I was at a seminar with STEIM
institute from Amsterdaam, and the man giving the
lecture was a classically trained musician who tried
also conducting but then went to explore electronic
live music because he felt musicians were sort of ...
too passive in the music creation, thought of by
composers as having no taste and therefore only able
to have style and technique and such, but not much
more, as if only able to deliver written pieces but
not create their own... How is it for dancers today in
that sense?

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