Can you explain your question here? ><As to Doug's reply, it's a nice vernacular image: "ultimately if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then...people are going to call it a duck." What would you say if one were to suggest that the ultimately "quacking like a duck" is precisely the sore point in the question that Dawn raised a while ago? >> I took your vernacular image to mean that new dance works coming out of the dance-technology community look like vernacular dance and use vernacular dance vocabulary and find themselves on the familiar proscenium stage and thus will be reviewed by ballet and modern dance critics? Dawn's question, back in December, was "where are the major works of dance that use Xtechnolgy that have been taken seriously by the art critics/writers besides BIPED?" I suppose you answered it already. >Culturally it seems, we don't have space for contemporary radical practices, practices which do not continue to hinge on historically recognizable practices>> To this I'd answer that if we don't strive for precisely such practices that create space of recognition in the culture, then we'll find ourselves badly compromised. I was hoping, by the way, that someone would pick up the ball and comment on my post regarding "Past/Forward" -- "Baryshnikov Dancing Judson" ............ greetings, and happy new year Johannes Birringer OSU_dance & technology
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