her Einem:

by michael klien

Finally, the sense to govern or steer has vanished and dance emerges as a life-force from between the stones: on the verge of birth and the eve of death, in the making of an idea and the demise of resistance. The state of dance: change as inscribed into this body – as inscribed in the world as a body.

published 17 November 2008  /  no comments yet

finger print see

by Regan O'Brien

3 pictures in response to Notes on “my” Einem

published 13 November 2008  /  no comments yet

notes on “my” EINEM

by elena gianotti

Body is all over, on the walls, on the ceiling, on other people’s faces
Exhilarating energy

published 28 August 2008  /  no comments yet

dancing the process: sense and meaning

by elena gianotti

When the beginning comes it comes, if it comes.
I don’t avoid form. My human form. Unless I evaporate.
I carry my concepts without formalism. It is political, political movement.

published 3 April 2008  /  no comments yet

framing

by fred steier

movement in space can itself help to define the very space in which it occurs, as features of that space that may have been invisible are in a very real sense brought forth by the movement

published 29 February 2008  /  no comments yet

process

by elena gianotti

Dance is a thin matter. Perception, impression, thought and action come all together and in any order at the same time.

published 29 February 2008  /  2 comment(s) with 0 new

a conversation in aesthetics

by michael klien

A mode of being can emerge that transcends the urge to order, that in itself is open to change, that in itself carries the potential for change. Such fields I, as a choreographer, attempt to harvest.

published 29 February 2008  /  no comments yet

editorial introduction

by jeffrey gormly

Maybe the conversations of ‘Field Studies’ is an attempt to clear secure space for the dancer to loosen his/her grip on the situation and become primal energy, a life giving something, a human being in the cradle of its context – to assume her and with him, all of our, role in the larger context of the living.

published 28 February 2008  /  no comments yet

field studies

by editor

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.

published 1 January 2008  /  no comments yet

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