I think that the more people enter a dialogue about dance/choreography the better.
I also think that there are never too many opportunities for young artists or artists in general to develop their craft and ideas.
A school is one of many other platforms where this can happen.
I think that the so called 'good' work should be put under scrutiny more often and the so called 'bad' work should be performed more often.
An audience also needs to be educated.
I question whether there is space for anything so called "new" to emerge.
With the end of the tradition of Modernism, which includes post modernism, Art/Dance, in my opinion, needs to create holes, spaces, where in a (new) memory can be created.
Art/Dance schools, entities that facilitate objective knowledge of skills and foster subjective insight, should focus on quality,individuality, meaning, diversity and context.
Because humans and the human body are destined to change, dance should be seen as a singularity, an event.
A Dance School that wishes to create (new)methodologies needs to know how to handle transformation and indeterminacy.
The more strategies for this the better.
Thu, 2005-08-11 09:41
Hear Hear!
Spaces in which a new memory can be created! Sounds good!
I believe fully in what you're saying, but find myself at a loss for words trying to argue with people who think bad art should not be funded.
Why do we need new art?
Why do we need to educate audiences?
What do people who do not like art have to gain?
What happens to them, and to us all, if we stop making (new) art?
I think a terrible situation is in the making. Stripping art funds, or eliminating them altogether. A shared thought that art should be something everyone can enjoy. A common wisdom that if something cannot be enjoyed by the majority, it is unworthy of the tax payer's money.
I am afraid. Our voices are but a sparrow's chirp in the Stampede Of The People.
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