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april 3 2025
No Manifesto (Yvonne Rainier, 1964)
No to spectacle.
No to virtuosity.
No to transformations and magic and make-believe.
No to the glamour and transcendency of the star image.
No to the heroic.
No to the anti-heroic.
No to trash imagery.
No to involvement of performer or spectator.
No to style.
No to camp.
No to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer.
No to eccentricity.
No to moving or being moved.
no to the overrepresentation of the human.
yes to whatever this body is today. yes to trusting that.
yes to porosity.
yes to creaturehood.
yes to strange crawls across the floor.
my body is an intelligent body, a sensitive body.
yes to curiousity. yes to moving from that place.
yes to edges softening,
yes to inhabiting myself with generosity.
yes to care.
yes to intimacy. yes to partnership.
yes to love. deep, embodied, quotidian love.
yes to devotion. yes to practice.
yes to faith
yes to falling knees down into the dirt
chest soft
heart open
after workshop with Chuck / studio 4 @ Lines / 04.23.35 / choreography Chuck Wilt
today’s promise in my dancing is just to show up. to walk through the door. no grasping for the story while its’s still revealing itself to me. no more anxious attempts to hold onto each moment with my brain (to name, to keep). yes to being in a simple state of presence with the material given to me. more staying in my body. i will walk through the door: surrender to the fantasy, let it become real. i am somewhere different now.