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Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 17:33:53 -0400
From: "Martin E. Rosenberg" <mrosenbe-AT-kettering.edu>
Subject: Re: How to make yourself a Dancing Body Without Organs?


Richard:

How to make yourself a Dancing Body Without Organs?

1.Try having a father into Biophysics at Dartmouth U.
2.Then try to envision what the concept of phase space might do to
choreography, particularly when dealing with two meanings of
ensembles--ensembles of collective bodies, and ensembles of possible
futures for contingently interacting bodies--mapped in smooth space
(with thanks to Riemann).
3. Then collect conceptually sophisticated dancers from philosophy,
literature and science and the visual arts to perform inside an evolving
radical aesthetic.
4. Then come up with a name that would capture the two notions of
ensembles.

Pilobolus, -AT-1970.

mer





Richard Scott wrote:
> 
> How to make yourself a Dancing Body Without Organs?
> 
> This project is designed to introduce and establish in the UK the research
> and development of concrete strategies to approximate Gilles Deleuze and
> Felix Guattari's concept of a Body Without Organs, with the intention of
> opening unknown territories for both dancers and audiences.
> 
> What is a Body Without Organs?
> 
> Early in their discourse on the notion of a Body Without Organs Deleuze and
> Guattari concluded that the BWO is not opposed to the organs, but to the
> organisation of the organs which is called the organism.  The BWO expresses
> itself in an attitude of curiosity and observation which appears when we ask
> ourselves what exactly is it we are doing when we are engaged in the act of
> seeing, hearing, feeling, touching and tasting, when we disrupt the
> hierarchy of the senses where the gaze assumes the dominant role,  when we
> undermine the automatic signifying process of the sensual experience.
> Contiguously the BWO emerges  through the pursuit of the intensive,
> unformed,  uncodified material that remains of the body when its signifiers
> and its subjectivity are disorganised.
> 
> Within dance, we consider that:
> A disarticulation of the organism occurs when the dancer works at
> dismantling and reassessing the physical and psychological organisation of
> its own subjectivity. This operation can only be carried out through a
> thorough and detailed  re-examination of the habitual body.
> Experimentation without interpretation occurs when a dance-experience is
> lived without granting it a prefixed meaning, to avoid becoming either
> signifier or signified.
> Nomadism occurs when the dancer conceives of his/her dancing body as a flux,
> a being with variable and multiple intensities that perceives neither a 'me'
> or a 'you' ( desubjectification) , neither an exterior nor interior, but is
> a multiplicity of fusion's which are in a perpetual state of being.
> 
> =85=85..to practise
> 
> How do we derive a practice from theory?  Amongst other things our previous
> investigations led us to:
> * Working simultaneously with different musical scores for different parts
> of the body.
> * Being moved by external physical impulses without will or interpretation.
> * Deregulation of the breathing.
> * Working on the image of  an interior and exterior physical state.
> * Exploration of both sides of the skin.
> * Not conceiving of sensations as subjective knowledge, nor as a mechanical
> or psychological events but as an objective reality that lacks unity and is
> extremely varied.
> 
> This movement research project is grounded in the acquired body of knowledge
> of the dance form generally recognised as Butoh which is seeking its
> postgraduate equivalent by  forcing it through the sieve of cutting edge
> philosophy & performance theory.
> 
> Gary Hughes & Frank van de Ven
> 
> Project :       9th to 20th November 1998.              Audition :      16th October 1998
> Initial profile for Applicants: We are looking for ten dancers conversant in
> different dance styles who are capable of conducting their own process and
> research. Also applications are invited from Visual Artists, Musicians,
> Video Documentators, Film makers, Theoreticians, Academics......
> To Apply: send your CV and include a written motivation (one side A4) for
> wanting to join this project to Gary Hughes,   Body Without Organs, 45A
> Archel Road, London, W14 9QJ   Phone 0171-610-1098
> FAX:0171-460-1809  Email hersir-AT-zoo.co.uk
> 
> When you will have made him a body without organs, then you will have
> delivered him from his automatic reactions and restored him to his true
> freedom.
> Then you will teach him again to dance wrong side out as in the frenzy of
> dance halls and this wrong side out will be his real place.
> (To have done with the judgement of God, A.Artaud,1947)

   

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