two people together
March 4, 2020
practice
A film by Simon Ellis, Igor Urzelai & Moreno Solinas. Filmed during Igor and Moreno’s Bora Bora residency at Odin Teatret in Denmark, April-May
g
February 29, 2020
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the invention of clothing
February 21, 2020
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The subject was anything but frivolous: donning a garment is a complicated act. Clothing has practical uses—warming the body in cold places,
embodied and disembodied
February 20, 2020
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In dance scholarship we seem to use the verb to embody rather loosely and confusingly. Of the various definitions in the OED—and putting aside some
phones, feelings and radically analogue bodies
February 18, 2020
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In February 2020 the German artist Simon Weckert put 99 smartphones into a small red trolley, walked around Berlin and created what he called a
emotions
February 15, 2020
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I happened across this fantastic emotion wheel by Geoffrey Roberts over at imgur.com/tCWChf6
are you comfortable there?
February 12, 2020
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My friend Bob Whalley used to have different cards printed that she would hand out at opportune (or sometimes inopportune) times.1 A long time ago
being heard
February 7, 2020
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Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable. – David Augsburger, cited in Chris Bailey’s
discarding tribal allegiance
February 2, 2020
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If you had told me, even six months ago, that a climate disaster like this one would strike a place like Australia, I probably would not have
algorithms
January 29, 2020
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an algorithm [is] an opinion formalized in code – Cathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction (Chapter 1)
city roads
January 26, 2020
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Beautiful rendering of the roads in any town/city/area: anvaka.github.io/city-roads/ Reblogged from daringfireball.net/linked/2020/01/24/city-maps
beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing
January 26, 2020
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too
dance my life away
January 20, 2020
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I don’t wanna die, I’d rather dance my life away – Prince “1999” (written in 1982)
git
January 14, 2020
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Git is what is known as a Version Control System primarily used by software developers to collaborate, to track the progress of their work, and to
move slow
January 12, 2020
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Move slow and take care of things
consent is only meaningful if it is informed
January 12, 2020
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The whole thing about whistle blowing [is that] it’s not about me. It’s about us and always is. In a democracy Government derives its legitimacy
just like you
January 12, 2020
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Walk gently on this earth with purposeful steps You share this space with seven billion human beings And countless other precious life forms Just
the ordinary people
January 7, 2020
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You can cheer the end of Sulaimani and still be anti-war. You can condemn the way Sulaimani was executed but still be relieved that he is no longer
terrible sex
January 6, 2020
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It’s hard not to love Nina Power’s attempt to write a theory of dance: Dancers intimidate normal, unhealthy people. Their superior physique and
the long arc
January 5, 2020
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I don’t seem to be posting a lot about dance and art at the moment but I couldn’t help but post this clear and succinct summary of the terrible
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