Grab bag :) - Saying Something with Body & Self
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- We've been asking ourselves the question, what is art?
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- And I don't know that we have a great answer,
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- but there are two things I'm sure of.
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- One is that art is saying something,
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- and two is that it's saying it with your whole self.
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- And that as these become more true, it becomes better.
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- And it may be that something is being said,
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- but un unintentionally and your whole self is involved.
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- But unconsciously, but
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- nonetheless, as you can say, things more eloquently,
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- more clearly, more insightfully, more meaningfully.
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- And as you can bring more of yourself
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- and as yourself grows, I would assert
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- that the art becomes better.
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- And that one of the things we do with technique is grow
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- our ability to do these things.
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- And in the context of dance, you could imagine saying this,
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- But The problem is that's actually not saying anything.
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- And instead, if I say this instead,
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- then that's saying something, uh, much more meaningful.
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- Uh, and so the point I'm making is
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- that if you're doing a gesture
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- and there's no real dynamic
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- to it, that doesn't mean anything.
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- That's a gesture. But if I'm saying, oh, I'm going up
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- and I'm going out,
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- then that becomes much more meaningful.
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- And not just that, but that you can let it shape your body.
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- So as I do this, it's not just that I do it with my arms,
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- but rather
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- you see the body shift, the neck, the face,
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- the fingers, right?
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- So it influences everything.
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- And this idea of it influences everything physically,
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- but you could also even say that you bring yourself to it.
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- And if I'm being whimsical
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- and I am being whimsical by doing this,
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- that's actually not that whimsical.
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- But on the other hand,
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- then that's much more whimsical.
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- A very abstract idea. I know. I hope it makes sense. I.
