http://thewinger.com/words/2007/the-dance-masters/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:03:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://thewinger.com/words/2007/the-dance-masters/#comment-20151 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:12:40 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2007/the-dance-masters/#comment-20151 [...] We have looked at the close relationship between the making a military body and making a dancer before. In our discussions of Foucault’s Discipline and Punish and Arbeau’s dance manual we have seen the science of choreography as a general problem to be employed for developing military maneuvers and dance maneuvers alike. [...] […] We have looked at the close relationship between the making a military body and making a dancer before. In our discussions of Foucault’s Discipline and Punish and Arbeau’s dance manual we have seen the science of choreography as a general problem to be employed for developing military maneuvers and dance maneuvers alike. […]

]]> http://thewinger.com/words/2007/the-dance-masters/#comment-10891 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:46:34 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2007/the-dance-masters/#comment-10891 I am not the only one http://jayfisher.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/part-1-the-thriller-video-foucault-and-our-discipline-in-the-new-media/ I am not the only one
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]]> http://thewinger.com/words/2007/the-dance-masters/#comment-10745 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:47:45 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2007/the-dance-masters/#comment-10745 [...] Foucault uses the Panopticon to analyze the new ways in which power is exercised in the modern world and the role surveillance technologies play in creating a disciplined/docile body. He describes Bentham’s architecture as a kind of multi-staged performance space. [...] […] Foucault uses the Panopticon to analyze the new ways in which power is exercised in the modern world and the role surveillance technologies play in creating a disciplined/docile body. He describes Bentham’s architecture as a kind of multi-staged performance space. […]

]]> http://thewinger.com/words/2007/the-dance-masters/#comment-9938 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:10:46 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2007/the-dance-masters/#comment-9938 And oooh, did you see Jorma Elo's brilliant "Brake the Eyes" at FFD? Probably not! Did anyone in your class see it? I felt like it was some kind of deconstruction of classical ballet -- he said (to the extent that he'll talk about his work) it was a deconstruction of Mozart, but I thought ballet as well. And it has Foucauldian D&P elements I thought. It begins with a sole ballerina onstage moving to very foreboding industrial music. She makes hyper-controlled movements, appearing as if she's a china doll / puppet and not human at all. At the same time a somewhat frenzied female Russian voice sounds over the industrial soundscape. She snaps her fingers and suddenly the music changes to sweetly, almost syrupy in contrast, Mozart music and a small ensemble comes out and dances in pairs kind of classically, but a bit more jerky and angular than classical ballet. Then china doll puppet ballerina comes back and snaps her fingers, kind of orchestrating their movements. You can't really tell if she's the controller or the controlled. Are they one and the same? It was really intense and the audience was on the edge of their seats; they definitely want to know more. Unfortunately there's no real analysis of his work anywhere on the internet, at least that I can find, which is sad because I really felt that the audience was hungry for that. Anyway, it's most definitely worth seeing if you or your students get a chance -- he's with the Boston Ballet, so they perform it. It just strikes me as Foucauldian. And oooh, did you see Jorma Elo’s brilliant “Brake the Eyes” at FFD? Probably not! Did anyone in your class see it? I felt like it was some kind of deconstruction of classical ballet — he said (to the extent that he’ll talk about his work) it was a deconstruction of Mozart, but I thought ballet as well. And it has Foucauldian D&P elements I thought. It begins with a sole ballerina onstage moving to very foreboding industrial music. She makes hyper-controlled movements, appearing as if she’s a china doll / puppet and not human at all. At the same time a somewhat frenzied female Russian voice sounds over the industrial soundscape. She snaps her fingers and suddenly the music changes to sweetly, almost syrupy in contrast, Mozart music and a small ensemble comes out and dances in pairs kind of classically, but a bit more jerky and angular than classical ballet. Then china doll puppet ballerina comes back and snaps her fingers, kind of orchestrating their movements. You can’t really tell if she’s the controller or the controlled. Are they one and the same? It was really intense and the audience was on the edge of their seats; they definitely want to know more. Unfortunately there’s no real analysis of his work anywhere on the internet, at least that I can find, which is sad because I really felt that the audience was hungry for that. Anyway, it’s most definitely worth seeing if you or your students get a chance — he’s with the Boston Ballet, so they perform it. It just strikes me as Foucauldian.

]]> http://thewinger.com/words/2007/the-dance-masters/#comment-9933 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:35:37 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2007/the-dance-masters/#comment-9933 Yay, you're back!! I don't have time to read this fully right now, but will at lunch! I LOVE Foucault's Discipline and Punish -- I originally started out my novel with a quote about the gaze but my agent said it was too "intellectual" and made me take it out. Boo :( I'm very excited to see it applied to dance. Also, I was wondering about those Philipine prison videos as applied to Foucault: http://greatdance.com/movetheframe/2007/09/philippine-prisoners-resurrect.php Yay, you’re back!! I don’t have time to read this fully right now, but will at lunch! I LOVE Foucault’s Discipline and Punish — I originally started out my novel with a quote about the gaze but my agent said it was too “intellectual” and made me take it out. Boo I’m very excited to see it applied to dance. Also, I was wondering about those Philipine prison videos as applied to Foucault: http://greatdance.com/movetheframe/2007/09/philippine-prisoners-resurrect.php

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