That was meant to be private, sincerest apologies. I pressed 'reply all' as I am very tired. ---------- >From: "Cyclone Wehner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: laura gavoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , [EMAIL PROTECTED] , 313@hyperreal.org >Subject: Re: [313] Detroit + Dance--ON topic!! >Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:22 PM >
>Hey Laura > >How are you? > >I had been meaning to call and catch up now my baby ed is back and I can >take some time out. The events in the US are terrible and deeply troubling >and I want to know everyone is OK. I hope your family and friends are OK. I >will try calling again this week. > >Heaps of love > >Cyclone > > >---------- >>From: "laura gavoor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 313@hyperreal.org >>Subject: Re: [313] Detroit + Dance--ON topic!! >>Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 1:01 AM >> > >>Races of people are DEFINED and otherwise anthropologically analyzed and >>studied by the culture of their society(ies). That being said, our culture >>will be defined by the 'dance' exhibited in music videos and titty bars. >> >>For decades, Americans have only supported ballet and classical music-- both >>white, European and considered 'upper crusty'. While classical music has >>been all but eliminated from some folks diets, like in Detroit where we now >>support NO classical music radio station. >> >>Most underclass art forms-- like the black dance-- have had to market >>fiercely and find support from private foundations and institutions to have >>a presence and continue enriching the lives of the TRULY unimaginative >>capitalist. >> >>Dancers are like any other artist. They simply know they must dance, or >>their lives are over, lackluster and pain-filled. We've survived and will >>continue to survive whether we are popular by your definitions or not. >>Much like the music and artists that this list is built around, some years >>may bring popularity and more revenue, most will not. >> >>It detracts NOT from the art and certainly not from this artist. >> >>I imagine you've never, BY YOUR OWN DESIRE, ever gone to see ANY dance >>company. Why should you when there are professional atheletes ? Americans >>have become a people very much like lemmings--ignorant of not only the >>present, but with eyes wide shut running after the head 'lem' straight off a >>cliff. >> >>Like any act from one's higher self, dance is a joy experienced only in The >>Expression or The Giving. While it is meant to take something obscure, >>illuminate it and clarify it, it matters not a whit whether you get it or >>not. It will continue in spite of you. >> >>To see movement of the caliber that I experienced watching the Ailey dancers >>was the highest form of appreciation that Roy Davis Jr., et. al could >>possibly envision. Beat for beat, musically technical elocution matched >>impeccably with physically technical elocution...those dancers EMBODIED >>Roy's music. It looked surreal, but was actually happening, on a stage in >>downtown Detroit. >> >>He and I had a long conversation about just that in Miami at the WMC. He >>was so excited to see the piece performed after he licensed the track to the >>company for their use, he is already working on something else with the same >>choreographer. >> >>The Alvin Ailey company is a dance company by which ALL other dance >>companies are graded, whether one is aware of them or not, or whether one >>supports them or not. Just as they will take it as far as they can, most >>dancers or artists of any genre will do the same--because it is who they >>are--not because it is popular or supported. >> >>Buy your season tickets to whatever you feel compelled to follow or whatever >>YOU feel enriches your one dimensional existence. >> >>Oddly, the darkest moments of human existence are always rapidly followed by >>'the renaissances' of the arts/existence. The American government is one of >>the only that does not even support a national ballet company, much less a >>company like Ailey's. >> >>It matters not. The human imagination exists not to garner a profit...it >>simply exists. Dreaming of Utopia is FREE and cannot be governed. That was >>one thing Hitler failed to realize when he marched into each major city and >>immediately seized museums, art, libraries and eliminated any expression of >>human existence that were subversive to his goal. >> >>Deluded?? Who?? >> >>Art, of any type, will always stimulate change....but perhaps you LIKE the >>way things are now. Just a guess........ >> >> >>>From: "Joshua Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>To: "laura gavoor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <313@hyperreal.org> >>>Subject: Re: [313] Detroit + Dance (off topic) >>>Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 18:57:50 -0400 >>> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "laura gavoor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>To: <313@hyperreal.org> >>>Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 7:26 PM >>>Subject: Re: [313] Detroit + Dance >>> >>> >>> > Still amazes me how dense most Americans are when it comes to the arts. >>> > Sorry to soap box, but few dancers live very OKAY lives for lack of >>>support >>> > in this country. Most still live the life of the starving artist with a >>> > couple of other jobs to survive, even while maintianing a position in >>>one >>>of >>> > the world's most prestigious dance companies. >>> > >>> > After all...what is dance music without the dancer. >>> >>>Speaking of dance music, isn't the dancer (in America) usually the dense >>>American? >>> >>>If a professional dancer is with "one of the world's most prestigious dance >>>companies" and still needs to hold multiple jobs, then isn't this a global >>>issue and not some problem of priorities with "most Americans"? >>> >>>Or perhaps the problem is specifically American: "How many poor people, who >>>envy and hate the rich, nevertheless tolerate monstrous inequalities of >>>wealth merely because they hope eventually to be among the few who rise to >>>the top? Some even consider this vicious delusion admirable: 'the American >>>Dream.'" (Allen Wood). >>> >>>Or maybe we average Americans don't support professional dancers because we >>>are expected, by the dancers, to support them as if they are the string by >>>which our distorted values cling to the isolated pockets of "critically >>>aclaimed" cultural enlightenment. >>> >>>/j >>> >> >> >>_________________________________________________________________ >>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
