Tag: vital matters
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An Encounter with Justin Jones’ MONEYBODEYBODYMONY @ Vital Matters
I wrote an essay a while back that broke open the term ‘art’ into five different definitions. It was for a Ph.D. seminar on art and leadership. I read thousands of pages, wrote papers and posts, and still, like most in my cohort, struggled with the question of what is art. So, rather than attempt…
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Olive Bieringa’s “action movie” @ Vital Matters
On October 21, 2016, I attended action movie by Olive Bieringa in the Vital Matters Dance Festival, held at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis, MN. This four-day festival was important in centrally locating the body and its felt experience. I found depth and renewal in the works I experienced there. Very few performances make the…
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Anna Marie Shogren’s “Human Anatomy” @ Vital Matters
Minneapolis, MN I was catering the opening night of the Vital Matters Festival of Dance at the Southern Theater, so between arranging plates, slicing bread, instructing assistants, opening jars, and fluffing tablecloths, I tiptoed into the back of theater to watch Anna Marie Shogren’s Human Anatomy. I am a dancer and choreographer myself, and have…
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Otto Ramstad’s “Lineage” @ Vital Matters
In the context of a contemporary dance festival dedicated to the “vital materiality of the body,” I was surprised that the greatest challenge to my idea of embodiment came about through its negation—through a conscious disembodiment of dance, in Otto Ramstad’s solo work Lineage. In the opening of the piece, Ramstad shuffles onto the stage at…