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- Concert 2 (31 August 1962)
- Viewing: Beyond the Mainstream (1980) September 27: Judson Experiments: Averting the Gaze Intellegent (female) Bodies That Speak
YouTube: Anna Halprin and Anne Collod @ MCA StageBreath Made Visible (2010) whatever images available about this documentary September 22: Judson Dance Theatre methods and materials ? major themes? What is being challenged? What is a dancer? What makes a dance? Read:
Sally Banes, “A Concert of Dance at Judson” (Democracy’s Body , 35-70) Assignment: Quick Takes Judson Experimental Works Due September 27, 29 Concert #1 (6 July 1962) Ruth Emerson, Shoulder Fred Herko, Once Or Twice a Week I Put On Sneakers to Go Uptown Steve Paxton, Transit and Proxy David Gordon, Helen’s Dance and Mannequin Dance Deborah Hay, Rain Fur Yvonne Rainer, Divertissement, Ordinary Dance, Dance for Three People and
Elaine Summers, Suite and Instant Chance Ruth Emerson, Narrative Elaine Summers, Newspaper Dance Ruth Emerson, Timepiece Trisha Brown, Trillium Concert #3 (29 and 30 January 1963) Yvonne Rainer, We Shall Run Ruth Emerson, Giraffe Carol Scothorn, The Lararite William Davis, Field Steve Paxton and Yvonne Rainer, Word Words Yvonne Rainer, Three Seascapes Carolee Schneemann, Newspaper Event Trisha Brown, Lightfall Huot-Morris, WAR Judith Dunn, Index Lucinda Childs, Pastime Deborah Hay, City Dance Arlene Rothlein, Seems to Me There Was Dust in the Garden and Grass Viewing: Beyond the Mainstream (1980) September 27: Judson Experiments: Averting the Gaze & Intellegent (female) Bodies That Speak continued examination of 60s experimental works that reflect themes of counterculture and pro-feminism; autobiography, structures, spliced compositions, talking and moving; when are you aware that gestures are being repeated?; how is repetition used in the composition process and what is the effect on the viewer?; how does the structuring of accumulated gestures and movements engage and/or disengage the viewer? Read: Sally Banes, “The Judson Workshop” (DB85-106) and “The Plot Thickens” (DB120-121, 126-128) Yvonne Rainer, “The Mind is a Muscle” and “No to Spectacle” No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to the glamour and transcendence of the star image no to the heroic no to the anti-heroic no to trash imagery no to the involvement of performer or spectator no to camp no to seduction of spectator or by the wiles of performer no to eccentricity no to moving or being moved… Trisha Brown, “I, I want, I want to, I want to give, I want to give my…”; “Accumulation With Talking Plus Watermotor, 1979” ; Susan Foster (on Trisha Brown), “Speech As Act: TB’s Accumulation…” The first third of the class will be presentations of Quick Takes on the works of the following experimentalists, commenting on methods and materials and major themes; and possible proto-feminist works critiquing the status quo, romantic, and emotional: Yvonne Rainer “Love section of “Play” from Terrain (1963) Simone Forti See Saw and Rollers (1960); Slantboard and Huddle (1962) No. 3 (1966) see Simone Forti, Handbook in Motion Deborah Hay Three Here (1964) Group I and Group II (1967) Lucinda Childs Carnation (1964) Geranium (1965) Carolee Schneemann Eye Body (1963) Meat Joy (1964) [See YouTube excerpts of Meat Joy] The remainder of the class will focus on the works of Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer which avert the gaze and propose intelligent (female) bodies that speak Viewings: Yvonne Rainer, “Trio A” (1966) from The Mind is a Muscle (1966) Trisha Brown: Homemade (1966) Roof and Fire (1973) Man Walking Down the Side of a Building (1970) Leaning Duets (1970) Walking On The Wall (1971) Accumulation (1971) Primary Accumulation (1972) Group Primary Accumulation (1973) Accumulation(1971)With Talking(1973)Plus Watermotor (1978) Directory: system -> files -> media media -> Latin America and the Caribbean in the Age of Revolution media -> Full time academic positions media -> Fine Arts 63 Fall 2004 media -> Sociology 15: foundations of sociological theory 2009 media -> American art and architecture, 1600 to the present media -> Reading Guide for Friday 4/27 media -> Alexander the False Prophet media -> English 95. 5 American Studies 68 History 83 media -> Opening: On the Union and the Founders Abraham Lincoln, Message to Congress, July 4, 1861 Harry Jaffa, What Were the 'Original Intentions' of the Framers of the Share with your friends:
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