Here are some photos I took on a flight from Ottawa. I was totally inspired by Chaski’s assignment of the superimposed videos of the airplane taking off. The leaves are changing in Canada right now and I thought it was interesting to see how the landscape changes as it becomes less agricultural and more rural.
Response to “A Letter to Dance”, by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
I really don’t know anything about dancing. I’ve got some rhythm because I grew up playing musical instruments but I definitely have two left feet. I don’t really ever think about choreography but this letter made me think about dancing differently. I like the idea of choreography being a way of “writing the people”, to dictate their movements, expressions, and feelings those movements evoke. The example about people moving through a subway station not being choreography makes sense to me as well. Though our bodies routinely exhibit patterns and the process of being “written” what makes something choreography is the conscious attempt to embody an idea and exhibit agency over our bodies. This kind of reminds me of Nun’s definition of pattern from last class: something that’s distinguished from the noise, what we choose to sense.