{"id":4998,"date":"2021-11-02T22:41:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T19:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiebox.ro\/danstopic-letter8\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T22:41:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T19:41:48","slug":"danstopic-letter8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiebox.ro\/en\/danstopic-letter8\/","title":{"rendered":"DANSTOPIC LETTER#8"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>I salute you body, I salute you mind,<\/h3>\n<p>This letter caught me at a very strange time. M-am g\u00e2ndit mult la ce a\u0219 putea s\u0103 \u00eemp\u0103rt\u0103\u0219esc cu tine \u0219i nu g\u0103sesc prea multe lucruri luminoase. So I&#8217;m going to write to you honestly, about my experience during this period, maybe you&#8217;ll find yourself in it too.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but the pandemic has affected me tremendously. I was at the moment when all the work I had done until that moment was coming together like a puzzle and opening new and new doors for me. I looked eagerly and courageously at the plans I had and felt that if I continued to work, the results would be better and better. A simple and unbreakable logic that seemed to work until everything stopped. I found myself so vulnerable all of a sudden and unable to accept the situation I was in.<\/p>\n<p><em>At first I couldn&#8217;t dance at all. Nu puteam s\u0103 asociez sufrageria cu un loc potrivit pentru dans. I was in my house, where it&#8217;s nice and warm and friendly, but I couldn&#8217;t move a finger. I felt stuck, tied down like I never knew how to move. I could find no reason for it. Nothing excited me. I was upset about everything I missed. Unable to focus on a single task.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I felt like I didn&#8217;t deserve something like this to happen to me. The information that surrounded me was unreliable, always contradicting itself. I didn&#8217;t know what to believe anymore. The feeling of &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what to believe anymore&#8221; is scary. I no longer knew where the dance started or where it should start. I couldn&#8217;t make sense anymore, and moving him online sent me into a second wave of rage. We don&#8217;t understand how people can still create, adapt and dance. What moves them? Desperation, hunger, denial, or the sincere desire for expression? Then I found names for what I was feeling. It was a sensation I had experienced before with the same intensity. Mourning. And I decided to treat it as such. I&#8217;m still there, can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m over it. Any beginning with apparent potential has a slightly bitter aftertaste that reminds me of the instability of the situation. All kinds of questions arose.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What and to whom is dance useful? Who needs artists anymore? Am I an artist? Should I fight for my pleasure or give up?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the meantime, I danced some more and I felt a hunger subside that I didn&#8217;t realize at first and that came from somewhere else, not from my stomach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">How are you?<br \/>\nI salute you body, I salute you mind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, several choreographers told and forwarded to their colleagues&#8217; questions about the body, the pandemic and the place\/meaning of dance for them, in the form of anonymous letters.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The animation of Letter #8 was created by Bogdan Crivoi and can be discovered through the Artivive application.<br \/>\nGoogle Play: <a class=\"oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.artivive&amp;fbclid=IwAR0iv0hTP4p9hAVju3W-uVK2RG2VM3aPxNslo54N4VjR-om0cwjk4cUftts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.artivive<\/a><br \/>\nApple Store:<br \/>\n<a class=\"oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/artivive\/id1188737494?mt=8&amp;fbclid=IwAR1K5rOz8DbrxyeHnsk3atkCgCorir0FSAJj_oHWuNZ0J4KaU8PYFuWzdUw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/artivive\/id1188737494?mt=8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I salute you body, I salute you mind, This letter caught me at a very strange time. 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