Re: Mills College performance/Intermedia name

From: Douglas Rosenberg (rosend@education.wisc.edu)
Date: 12/07/01


Dawn, et al,
Dawn wrote>
"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".
Do you mean Michael Kirby?  Kirby used the term in a 1975 Theater Dance Rweciew
essay in regard to dance I believe.
Doug







Dawn Stoppiello wrote:

> >I have also tried the idea, based on the works of Nathan Shedroff,
> >of using the term "experience design".  And "performance
> >technology".  Nothing works--I still get blank looks.  I think if we
> >all agreed on a term, and proceeded to severely label a large body
> >of work with that term, we MIGHT be termed a movement...but where's
> >the fun in that?
>
> Hello Jeff,
> Yeah, no matter where you go...there you are. It is kind of fun to
> continually challenge myself to describe what I do in different terms
> to see what turns the lights on for people. And different people
> respond to different descriptions. I love "experience designer".
> Generally, I am still quite fond of choreographer. Which still has
> people asking what the hell is that. Which leads to "modern" dance
> which isn't exactly what I do...oh words are so complicated:)
>
> I don't think we are a movement because of our vast diversity in
> style and aesthetics. We could be a toolment.
>
> Dawn
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