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Would it be harsh to suggest “get a life”?
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“ It’s like telling someone their dog’s just died. It was pretty much like that for me. I love it, I love playing Xbox live. I play with my mates all the time. It’s just a good laugh, we all sit there chatting, playing games. Now I don’t know what to do. ”
“ Seriously, stop bitching about things and write some proper articles about dance. Stop telling us what is wrong with dance and start telling us what is right ”
Sorry but giving Wayne McGregor a metaphorical “reach around” in the media is Judith Mackrell’s job!
“ In her film, she sees Harris as a warning of what our children might become, perpetually connected to millions but starved of intimate contact with a few. ”
“ The better-living-through-bad-news profs say that the same psychology is seen in other situations. It’s better, they argue, to have your spouse die than to have them divorce you. ”
Scientists huh! Can’t live without them, can’t stick their testicles in a blender just to make them shut up!
Chronically ill people ‘happier if they abandon hope’, say docs • The Register
Stop Your Search Engines
I’m not wishing the Internet away. It has become so integral to my work — to my life — that I honestly can’t recall what I did without it. But it has allowed us to reflexively indulge every passing interest, to expect answers to every fleeting question, to believe that if we search long enough, surf a little further, we can hit the dry land of knowing “everything that happens” and that such knowledge is both possible and desirable. In the end, though, there is just more sea, and as alluring as we can find the perpetual pursuit of little thoughts, the net result may only be to prevent us from forming the big ones.
(via Popwuping)
“ Irretrievable Yet Recreated ”
Dance critics, what would we do without them?
Dance Review - Merce Cunningham - At Park Avenue Armory, a Master’s Magic - NYTimes.com
“ Feeling terrible for that poor guy. He had every right to call me boring. Not his fault it caught me at a vulnerable time. Pls be nice to him. ”
Is it just us or has the whole world gone completely fucking insane? Mr Fry…. how old are you exactly?
“ It’s an issue that has been sparking all summer. While the dance scene has never appeared healthier, it is also one that looks distinctly alpha male. In the UK, choreographers such as Wayne McGregor, Matthew Bourne, Michael Clark and Russell Maliphant dominate our stages and our press. Even though plenty of women are out there – making very personal, very challenging work – few are producing the large-scale box-office hits delivered by their male peers. ”
Wayne McGregor et al, Alpha Males, seriously? If you want to look at a bunch of people who’ve been making the same crap for the last 15 years then you have your description.
There are plenty of “great” female dance makers but, naturally, it’s a completely unquantifiable term that cannot be proven.
Vanishing pointe: where are all the great female choreographers? | Stage | The Guardian
All Play Dance Company in rehearsal for ‘Push’ the company’s up and coming new work: Dancer: Nikki O’Hara
“ Senior officers say domestic extremism, a term coined by police that has no legal basis, can include activists suspected of minor public order offences such as peaceful direct action and civil disobedience. ”
