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March 26, 2007 at 1:10 am · Filed under books, invite, TONY, dancing, education, politics, performance, community, project, reading group, andre lepecki, pedagogy
The full collection of posts for this reading group can be found at the link here.
Last week I wrote (and danced in) a post entitled Performance and Pedagogy, presenting the work of two radical scholars, Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal. In it I discussed the relationship between performance and education and how each could raise critical consciousness by promoting active dialogue. The Winger (and this whole corner of the blogosphere for that matter) is an ideal space for performing this type of dialogical dance. In a recent conversation with Tonya Plank regarding dance and politics, we had the idea of forming a reading group to add more depth to our discourse.
I would like to officially invite all of you to participate in an experiment, the formation of an online reading group relating to dance and dance studies.
Tonya and I thought of starting with Exhausting Dance: Performance and the politics of movement by Andre Lepecki. Like Freire and Boal, Lepecki is another radical scholar whose ideas have fundamentally transformed the way I think about dance and education. (He is also coincidentally Brazilian-born.) Lepecki currently teaches dance studies, performance studies, critical theory and philosophy at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Exhausting Dance is a wonderful book as it is both difficult and stimulating. Since it is such a short but challenging book it is ideal as the first text in this reading group. You can order the soft cover version of Exhausting Dance from Amazon right here. It is well worth the purchase. Perhaps we could have our first group analysis in a couple of weeks where we could pick apart the first chapter.
Write a comment if you would like to participate. This feels like the start of something big!
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September 26, 2006 at 3:34 pm · Filed under SLOAN, dance, choreographers, dance event, parties, dancers, video, events, press, art, samsung, brooklyn, invite, dance and technology
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Ok, so I blew it last Saturday and didn’t make it to Agora II (the site specific dance performance/social experiment by Noémie Lafrance) as I had hoped and posted about before, (rain, friends birthday parties… excuses, excuses).
Anyhow, it seems to have worked out ok, because this is the last week (09.27-10.01) that Agora II will be at McCarren Park Pool and on Friday they are going all out! They’ve invited Critical Mass to join in the form of 500 bicycles riding through the performance, and there will be a huge dance party after the show!
Note that when buying tickets to the show you have the option of being a either a Viewer or a Player.
From my understanding, people that opt to be Players are allowed into the pool at certain points during the performance and given some basic choreography to do within the show.
The good news is that The Winger has been granted PRESS access.
I’ll be there on FRIDAY, shooting the performance as a “Player” with my hands-free Samsung Sportscam (It’s inaugural outing).
Also, readers of The Winger get a 25% discount on tickets!
Enter Code: POOL at checkout.
And if you’ve already seen Agora II this year, you can bring your program and ticket stub on Friday to get $10 tickets to the show and party.
So, between the discount, and the fact that I’ll be there shooting…
How about getting a team of Wingers out on FRIDAY night for the performance and the party?
Whether you want to be a Player or Viewer, we can all congregate afterwards at the party. Drop me a line so that I know to look out for you.
C’mon. It’ll be fun!
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September 5, 2006 at 11:38 am · Filed under SLOAN, choreographers, dance event, parties, dancers, friends, events, manhattan, invite
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This Friday September 8th…
Tom Gold, The Winger and thehappycorp global are teaming up to celebrate and promote the upcoming performances of “New Ballet Choreographers“, an event presented by the Miller Theater and Works and Process at the Guggenheim which will feature artists from the American Ballet Theater Studio Company and the New York City Ballet in new works by Tom Gold, Edwaard Liang and Brian Reeder.
We’re really excited to help throw this event, which we hope will help connect people who may not have dance on their radar (as well as those who do), with people and events that are worth checking out.
If you’re interested in coming to the September 8th party…
Sign up for our newsletter, which will go out tonight and direct you to the official invitation and RSVP page.
“New Ballet Choreographers” will be held at the Miller Theater at Columbia University on September 13th, 15th and 16th.
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