It is surely hard to keep up with everything, but I think this essay is important, and reminds me so much of Annie Abrams and others work as well. And we need to have these rituals for the common good; in my country, on an unfortunately deep level, there is no longer any commonality, common good, but there are true believers who would have no idea what silence or waiting or wandering or wondering is about. There is this: "Psychosomatically, quarantine begins to resemble a private ritual. It also involves the repeated self-cleansings that are ordained upon us, ordered as a new protocol of self-sanitation and auto-participation in a (presumably) collective ritual cleansing and self-protection. This ritual is politically sanctioned as the protection of all others. That is the mask. Medical advice I receive tends to clarify that the mask is less helpful to protect myself than it is helpful to protect others" In other words, it's drama, theater, *that keeps its audience alive. * And that indeed is something to think about in these still-dark times. Best, Alan
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 8:21 AM Johannes Birringer via NetBehaviour < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > dear all: > I may have mentioned it when I published the reference to my 'Gravel > Maraboutage' film > a while ago, but here is a second context for it, a short essay: > as part of a discussion about whether there is theatre after the pandemic. > > http://www.critical-stages.org/22/electric-dance-or-how-to-talk-with-birds/ > > best wsihes > Johannes Birringer > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- *=====================================================* *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org> tel 718-813-3285**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* *=====================================================*
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