Date: Mon, 08 Dec 97 16:04:40 GMT
From: "balexand-AT-beta.centenary.edu"<balexand-AT-beta.centenary.edu_at_-AT-ucsd-AT-libnt.ucsd.edu>
Subject: Re:  RE: Contact Improv



Thanks for the background!  does sound quite the rhizome.

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On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 DRMARCIAL-AT-aol.com wrote:

> re: "Anti-Oedipal" in the sense that it tries to set up affectional abundance
> rather than situations of rivalry which center people around paranoid
> dynamics of transference rather than being pulled out into a world of
> adventure and risk. Anti-Oedipal, trying to pull people out of their
> neurotic, petty soap operas and into a larger engagement with a world of
> surprise where such dramas become irrelevant as they open out onto domains
> with totally different charges and dynamics...
>
>     "Contact improvisation", a movement-contact form in which people roll
> over each other, pat, fall, etc., and being based on people really getting
> intimate with gravity rather than resisting it, is a form in which many, many
> people may become intimate in many different ways, on other intensual levels
> than sex. It thus can bypass a lot of the jealousy stuff and lead in other
> directions.
>
>     There's a lot of room for a rhizome-dance connection. What is a group of
> people dancing but a body without organs? I certainly experience this at
> clubs...
>
> (un)leash
>



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