In February 2009 Sidestep Festival Helsinki included in its program a series of events gathered in a ‘new meaningful public space’ called UNI. Created and curated by Z-Zcore a group of young Finnish choreographers, in collaboration with dramaturg Steve Valk. this a reflection space where visitors to and participants in the events can piece together memory and dream vision in a communal act of making meaning after the event

A bigger group shrinking to a smaller one, crystalizing swarming wild everywhere into specificity, into just this, here on this page.

Hello reader.

How can words hold everything and every potential in them and be specific? At once. Details drawing a profile makes the un-graspable graspable. Perhaps.

Are you there?

And then: what is the shape of what we do. Not what we say but what we hold between us. What is this ‘thing’ we produce. Fluxing fleeting. Somehow changing the space. Not the walls but the space that breaths within it. Is it you and me breathing?

Now, reader, you breath.

Sets me off. Opens my eyes, words unsettles me, strives towards that in me which cannot be languaged. Then words are produced in me, exhilerating that is. Then I yield back and you are there to recieve. And like this we produce something, we do ‘conversation’. Like this we talk to each other.

Here are the traces.

(what is dmp?

An exchange of editorial positions between two web publishers attempting to generate critical discussions about dance and choreography. A series of gestures opening out intentions, ambitions, strategies.

criticalcorrespondence is New York based, and seeks to serve its local dance community with a platform for dialogue, debate, dogma, dissertation, dispersion. We welcome this opportunity to compare notes on what we are doing how and why, and bounce around assertions about the arts of dance and choreography.

A slow motion conversation in science and poetry between choreographer, dancer and frame analyst. Michael Klien, Elena Gianotti and Fred Steier swap insights into processes of discovering, revealing, producing, concealing, evading and avoiding meaning.
On use of self as a crucible: dust of one’s life as laboratory conditions for observing processes of becoming meaningful.
See also streaming sense and meaning.

Mathematician, philosopher and autodidact Alexis Clancy is our guide on a rock’n‘roll tour of the art and sciences of model building.
By “model” we mean models of reality. By “building” we mean constructing concepts and theories that explain our world and its laws. By “explain” we actually mean create, ie organise our perceptions of our world, ie make sense of it, ie construct a model in our minds of how the world is and then live our lives according to that model.
If you are frightened of maths, then this is a very entertaining way to have the pants scared off you.

An occasional series by Jeffrey Gormly:
streaming is a technique i developed while performing as a writer inside a choreography of mind …
trying to get my thought-words dancing, and yours too …
it’s like automatic writing, channeling presence performance …
watching dancers do what they do with a pen in my hand … uncensored
… this is not a review section, but invitations to performances are welcome…

A work in progress, imagineering ideas for a book of recipes for producing certain kinds of ideas/thoughts/frames of mind: transferring techniques from performance to reality; applied science-fiction; poetics of living; art of dreaming; anticipated configurations of mind and its networks; distribution of non-interference; wild ideas applied to reality. For an introduction to flexistentialism see Mind Is A Muscle