{"id":4992,"date":"2021-11-02T21:24:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T18:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiebox.ro\/danstopic-letter2\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T21:24:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T18:24:28","slug":"danstopic-letter2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiebox.ro\/en\/danstopic-letter2\/","title":{"rendered":"DANSTOPIC LETTER#2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear you,<\/strong>
\nBody,<\/strong>
\nYou\/Me<\/strong>
\nSoul,<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I’d like to get to know each other better” is a refrain I keep singing and I’m glad I’m not the only one. In addition to touches and dance, which compress explanations, distances, situations, thoughts and intentions, words are welcome, especially in DIALOGUES.<\/p>\n

Good thing you already answered a question I asked on April 29th this year to you and me and everyone who does this. Time to answer. I dance because I can hold you all close, love you and believe in you and God without shame. Because I like to forget constructed images, successful false speeches, how cheap and easy is cynicism hidden under the pretence of pragmatism; I do it in words, in looks and dance: this thing, to denounce, with as much gentleness as I can – this is also impotence – coverings of our interior. An example: the need for someone to need me, hidden under motivation. In words and in looks I am not too believed. In dance, sometimes I see myself in the mirror of a gaze that looks at me. It’s starting to not be enough. I am beginning to understand that “because I like it and it helps me towards others” is no longer enough as an argument for the mind, nor as a springboard for the soul.<\/p>\n

But while I’m still here, I want you to describe to me in detail what the ideal world of dance would look like for you. And I will write to you what the ideal society looks like for me. But further, so as not to influence you.<\/p>\n

What is more important to you than dancing?<\/span><\/p>\n

What do you believe in? And “nothing” is an answer, and I won’t judge you, as long as it’s honest.<\/span><\/p>\n

What’s the biggest lie you’ve told in dance? Have you ever invented some topic, discourse, or concept just to show others that you are reinventing yourself?<\/span><\/p>\n

When was the last time you were honest on or behind the scenes?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I dance with and for people. I, being one of them. The pandemic turned me around and I kept my exercise routine. But I missed movement with people, movement, and dance in another form.<\/span><\/p>\n

I start working on new shows – mine or others’\/ all the same – when I got what’s behind the words, the reactions, the surface; when I have something to put on stage. \u021ain mult la con\u021binut. At consistency. I think in pictures. And anything that serves situations and images is good to bring to the stage. It doesn’t have to be about movement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just as words carry worlds within them, the movement opens up places where the filter of explanation disappears. In which I approach you and know you without knowing your name, why that and why not.<\/span><\/p>\n

A show, a dance class brings me more perspectives. Multiple reports on the same reality. Because it’s with people. Other than me. It makes me notice – when I look at it – parts of me that I find harder to access.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t want to convince anyone to dance. I trust that the Greatest Choreographer or Mr. Choreographer places, depending on each one’s path, things much more coherently and powerfully in each of us.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>I hug you as much as I can,<\/span><\/p>\n

The second body<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In 2021, several choreographers told and forwarded to their colleagues’ questions about the body, the pandemic and the place\/meaning of dance for them, in the form of anonymous letters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each letter served as inspiration for an illustrator to create an augmented animation during DANSTOPIC workshops in the spring, a guided journey by Skeptic Dog Animation and Human Interface.<\/span><\/p>\n

The animation of Letter #2 was created by Silvia Niculae and can be discovered through the Artivive app.<\/span><\/p>\n

Google Play:<\/span> https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.artivive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Apple Store:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/artivive\/id1188737494?mt=8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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