Re: Mills College performance/Intermedia name

From: Douglas Rosenberg (rosend@education.wisc.edu)
Date: 12/06/01


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
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> Dawn Stoppiello
> Artistic Co-Director
> Troika Ranch
> dawn@troikaranch.org
> http://www.troikaranch.org
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