[dance-tech] Re: March discussion forum: dance/performance and participation
- From: Henry Daniel <hdaniel@xxxxxx>
- To: Johannes.Birringer@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 14:11:24 -0700
Hello Johannes,
This is me, still lurking, but coming out of the shadows just a little.
To briefly answer your question (s), this particular research project is in its
early stages, but it has deep origins in previous work over many years, most
recently my “Project Barca: New Architectures of Memory and Identity” in which
I was able to do site-specific research in Andalusia (Spain) on the
consequences of a particular ‘experiment’ and its consequences for that country
as well as the entire Americas.
The reasons for migrating/moving/travelling/leaving - forcibly or
willingly - one’s ‘place’ or ‘home’ is quite a complex issue, but I am seeking
to establish some general working premises and principles for why these
‘movements’ take place and the complex manifestations that emerge over
long(er) periods of time. I am also interested in specific places and times as
well as peoples who are affected by these ‘movements’, hence the provocative
and somewhat preliminary term ‘contemporary nomadism’.
The underlying premise is that these ‘movements' or ‘behaviours' have
cortical, cartographic, and cosmological correlates, meaning that we can
investigate them through the complex ‘architectures’ or ‘maps' that are
generated in and through bodies, in and through sites and locations, and in and
through the ‘qualities’, ‘energies’, and/or ‘tensions’ that manifest.
So yes, there are significant philosophical, political, and
socio-economic aspects to the research, but there are also important links with
the biological and neuro-sciences, the astronomical sciences - including
archaeoastronomy, and the geographic/historic ‘sciences’ (riffing a bit on
Jared Diamond’s GGS), all of which determine what kind of ‘choreography’
emerges.
an example might help explain these interests...
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cqNQYSTbSw
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cqNQYSTbSw>>
Now on to other lurkers…
Cheers,
Henry
> On Mar 22, 2015, at 5:32 AM, Johannes Birringer
> <Johannes.Birringer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> And I completely agree with Henry that this post opens up a number of
> pathways for us to discuss, about existential practice, techniques of
> survival and withdrawal, and also the forms of mediation and composing
> involved here;
> Henry briefly mentioned his research, >>[it] could be described as an abiding
> interest in the relationship between people living in or near to historic
> locations and/or sites of tension, and having to shift and/or leave those
> habitats for one reason or another (migration)>>
>
> Henry, in your work, do you look at migration through choreography, or at
> choreography (and "technologies) through nomadism? is "contemporary nomadism"
> (rather than forced migration, economic migration, flight, asylum) not a
> euphemism for a much harsher, much more precarious reality?
> Or are you interested in a philosophical, cosmological side of why people
> change places? I think Nilüfer (yes, she was here in London a few years
> ago, finished her Phd)
> has given us a remarkable trajectory.....
>
> warm regards
> Johannes Birringer
>
> [Nilufer Ovalıoglu schreibt]
> .....
>
>>> Yet coming here was by far the best decision I ever took. Witnessing the
>>> culture of storytelling, vocal rituals, dances and arts that will disappear
>>> soon is priceless. My quest to find tales that make life meaningful as a
>>> storyteller is constantly fulfilled. I find myself developing methodologies
>>> for producing theatre here, with people from here. I reveal the 'personal'
>>> stories of people and face the general politics of war with what is
>>> personal and unique to local people. This might be my stand against the
>>> generalizing and categorizing attitude of all sides. I teach the module
>>> 'Text and Image' here at the university. I try to transfer the idea of
>>> memory and multi-meaning producing to students to draw them back from
>>> 'general' ideas in the uni. Unfortunately the area has been left ignorant
>>> intentionally to keep wars going on. So it is quite an effort to break
>>> their prejudices about identities.
>
> Five years from now, this place may be another country, hit by Isıs or an
> ancient Touristic attraction. Within such uncertainties lies the essence of
> theatre and more then ever I feel at the steps of Artaud as he searched 'for
> the shadow of effigies'. Life , God, meaning is more here.
>
> Nilufer Ovalıoglu,PhD
> Mardin Artuklu University
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