LEAD ARTICLE: social dreaming / social choreography
by michael klien / steve valk
Social Choreography has opened an arena of cultural interplay between artists and audience, a lived and interconnected world of relationships, patterns and dynamics, a region of new and subtle observational capacities in which a deeper level of interdependence, an implicate order of mind and nature, has emerged as a model for a new and regenerative social reality.
morepublished 7 August 2008
choreographic report: SEVEN DAYS OF EVERYTHING
by jeffrey gormly
It would be good if actors worked on cities. If they abandoned their traditional acting acting and became fully engaged in transforming the city. This would be a great hope. ..Can one conceive what would happen if actors suddenly became builders!
Daniel Liebeskind, The End of Space
published 7 August 2008
LEAD ARTICLE: choreography as an aesthetics of change
by michael klien / steve valk
Out of a growing awareness of the ever-widening gap between “the way man thinks and the way nature works,” choreography, traditionally understood as “the art of movement in time and space”, has found itself being drawn away from “the ideal world” of the stage. At the same time it has been driven to undergo a re-examination of its conceptual language and explanatory systems.
morepublished 1 July 2008
dear grace (patterns are everywhere remix)
by alan n. shapiro
We have acquired the super-powers to bring about fantastic changes. This is a given of our radical rewiring of our rich cultural heritage. We will create conducive and conductive conditions to make things happen, for local-global patterning and re-patterning. This is the work of the choreographer of everyday life. She is the negotiator, navigator, provider and architect of the flowing economy in which we are swimming.
morepublished 1 July 2008