Friday, February 1, 2008

Black History- Mount Vernon

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We begin Black History Month with a look at the slaves of Mount Vernon. I will present dances at sites around Washington all month. Today's dance takes place in front of slave quarters and you see that they get one pair of clothes every year and you can see the amount of food they received daily. The video ends with their grave site. Of the music David Morneau says:"it's from a recording of "Berta, Berta" by Brandford Marsalis. I believe that it's either an old slave work song, or else modeled on an old slave work song. it seemed like the right sound for the subject."

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Pre-Futurist Dance Manifesto

The world of the past is no more and the world of the future will never arrive. There is only now and how you decide to respond in the now.

Postmodernism has past.

We believe in the intelligence of the body, the intelligence of the mind and that the two are impossible to separate.

Dance is the result of the physicalized mind and the verbose body and we reject putting the cart of scholarship and language before the horse of dance.

Performance happens now, it does not have to secure funding, book a theater or advertise in newspapers. It does not need rehearsal space. It does not need a concept. It does not need to last for more than a second. It does not need to be ephemeral. It does not need flowy pants, tight tops or bare feet. It does not need previews, reviews or even to be seen at all.

We reject the term modern dance, we make art through movement. We dance, we make videos, we make paintings, we make video games, we write, we sculpt, we draw, we act, we sound and we move. We make art. We are artists.

We can change the world.