http://thewinger.com/words/2007/1692/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:39:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://thewinger.com/words/2007/1692/#comment-7534 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:49:54 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2007/1692/#comment-7534 Thanks for your post Maia. This is why I have been so excited to hear what you have to say. Your writing is very generous and communicative, as good dancing should be. I have been thinking lots about these transmissions at the surface you mention. Phenomena at the margins (Broadhurst's liminal and Birringer's border performances) are numerous and multivalent. Anthropologist Vinci Daro takes particular interest in "edge effects" at the periphery of social movements where, for example, union organizers might interface with environmentalists. This field of intercellular communication is also observed in biology in the "interstitial" space between cells. This is the lymphatic system. The flows within these spaces are not driven, as in the cardiovascular system, but require the physical movement of the overall organism to circulate. These transmissions, like the posts we write here, require movement and dance to propagate across membranes and take up residence in meaningful contexts. Thanks for your post Maia. This is why I have been so excited to hear what you have to say. Your writing is very generous and communicative, as good dancing should be. I have been thinking lots about these transmissions at the surface you mention. Phenomena at the margins (Broadhurst’s liminal and Birringer’s border performances) are numerous and multivalent. Anthropologist Vinci Daro takes particular interest in “edge effects” at the periphery of social movements where, for example, union organizers might interface with environmentalists. This field of intercellular communication is also observed in biology in the “interstitial” space between cells. This is the lymphatic system. The flows within these spaces are not driven, as in the cardiovascular system, but require the physical movement of the overall organism to circulate. These transmissions, like the posts we write here, require movement and dance to propagate across membranes and take up residence in meaningful contexts.

]]> http://thewinger.com/words/2007/1692/#comment-7463 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:06:49 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2007/1692/#comment-7463 Thanks again for your sweet words about my blog, Maia! Oftentimes what I find most interesting in dance is the experimental work happening on the margins. Orlin's work sounds fascinating and I'd love to see it live someday! For now, I'll visit the website. Please blog about the Dance Umbrella when it happens, and please continue to post about all the things going on in South Africa. It's so cool that we have someone on the Winger who is writing from so far away! Thanks again for your sweet words about my blog, Maia! Oftentimes what I find most interesting in dance is the experimental work happening on the margins. Orlin’s work sounds fascinating and I’d love to see it live someday! For now, I’ll visit the website. Please blog about the Dance Umbrella when it happens, and please continue to post about all the things going on in South Africa. It’s so cool that we have someone on the Winger who is writing from so far away!

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