Dearest Colleagues, The word "intermedia" has been around since the sixties at least when Elaine Summers called her performance groups work intermidia. Dawn Stoppiello wrote: > Good luck with your performances Peter, sorry we can't see them. Let > us know how Isadora holds up. > > And I have noticed in two different posts to this list the use of the > term "intermedia" which I like a lot. Interesting. We have been > thinking about using the term 'hybrid" again after struggling with > the slash arts (dance/theater/media) for some years now. Are all the > different names we use to describe what we make confusing to people? > I am wondering if any on this list consider ourselves to be a > movement? (I know that isn't really a proper sentence) A group of > like minded folks? Do we have enough in common to "name" ourselves? > Or is that supposed to come from someone outside the group? It's like > the writer (who I forget now) that wrote about the Judson Dance > Theater and maybe was the first to call them post-modern dancers and > really talk about their processes and theories. Of course, following > the previous posts about writing maybe we better not wait for an > interested art writer to come along. We might be dead before that. > Just a thought. Has this topic already been thrashed about and I > missed it? If so, sorry to bring it up again. > > Dawn > -- > *************************** > Dawn Stoppiello > Artistic Co-Director > Troika Ranch > dawn@troikaranch.org > http://www.troikaranch.org > *************************** > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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