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more soapbox musings about modern dance

Filed under:Uncategorized — posted by Amanda Abrams on May 16, 2007 @ 2:43 pm

audience 

i’m still thinking about modern dance and why the public’s interest in it has been waning over the past decade or more. there have been some good points posted here by a number of folks. one that i’d like to highlight was put up by micky w:

I think more modern dance choreographers have to start remembering that there is an audience out there without 20 years of modern dance watching under their belt. Much of it is so dang obtuse.

somehow that keys into a lot of what i think, and have thought in the past, about modern dance. i took a long break from dancing and remember seeing performances at that time that made no sense to me–and yet i kept trying to figure them out. now, of course, i realize that you don’t need to “figure out” a performance–you just watch it and enjoy it for what it is. the problem, though, is that that isn’t particularly clear to the non-dancing audience.

but i’m jumping ahead of myself. what i think about creating good dance is that it’s very hard, harder than writing stories or songs. good dance is about being non-verbal and abstract, and those are tough skills to conjure up in our very analytical, literal society. maybe you could say that it’s about using your right brain rather than your left. i honestly do think that most audiences recognize good dance, even if it’s kooky or trippy, but my feeling is that most dance is not that good. choreographers–who probably could be quite successful if they stuck with pure, meaningless movement–try to get to that abstract feeling by adding elements to their pieces that are non-sequiturs, that don’t make sense. think of the bizarre text or props that are frequently featured in performances, or the ideas that seem to be picked out of nowhere and don’t connect with any underlying themes in the piece. and of course, instead of deepening the piece, these elements just look contrived and self-indulgent, and wind up befuddling the watcher.

i don’t mean to be harsh. i’m guilty of this too. and i don’t know what the answer is–ultimately i guess it’s about the artist developing a creative process that is more successful for them. but it’s also about having more respect for the audience, i think. i know so many choreographers who not only strongly believe that “the audience can’t dictate the content” but seem to feel downright contempt for viewers who don’t ‘get’ them. audience members aren’t free of responsibility either, but they’re an integral part of the performance and whether they are moved by the performance is important. after all, we make dances in order to express ourselves and communicate, right? and if the viewer isn’t hearing us, something critical is obviously missing.

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now i’m thinking that maybe i’ve been too harsh. maybe nothing’s wrong with modern dance. maybe it’s just become such a conservative country that people can’t appreciate it anymore…

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27 comments »

  1. I just thought about it and I have, myself, been around this modern dance scene in DC for almost 20 years. Gad.

    One thing that I think the mod dance scene could use is a better vetting process. Think of it. A playwrite cannot get a play seen unless he gets by a producer. A composer can’t get an orchestra to play her masterpiece until she gets it past a conductor. A novelist — a publisher. A painter — gallery owner. A classical ballet choreographer has to get past the artistic director (aside from the smaller number of AD’s who are also Choreographers why even then have to answer to their Board of Directors). Every time you go to most concerts/plays/galleries/bookstores/ballets someone who supposedly knows something has screened it.

    But a modern dance choreographer only needs a checkbook and an open weekend at Dance Place to be a Modern Dance Choreographer. I don’t know what could be done to better vet dance since you can’t easily show a dance producer your next premiere. Just an observation with no answers.

    Comment by Micky W. — May 16, 2007 @ 4:33 pm

  2. How many dance choreographers do you know around here with a “checkbook” - i need to talk to them to figure out what i’m doing wrong. . .

    Comment by Anonymous Director — May 17, 2007 @ 7:59 am

  3. I think that is the problem. Many modern dancers take money out of their personal checkbook, instead of doing a little fundraising. Dance can make money and artists do not have to be starving.

    Comment by Ilana Silverstein — May 17, 2007 @ 10:40 am

  4. kind of like “vetting” but to create your own backing.

    Comment by Anonymous Director — May 17, 2007 @ 10:58 am

  5. So many people I talk to say the same thing about modern dance like its weird, people don’t understand it, audiences are getting smaller and yet we plod on as if by some miracle the people are going to have a catharsis and decide they like what we do. I feel like what we have done is irrelevant. Who is going to recognize that the world has changed with the revolution in technology. People are walking around with video players in their pockets watching tv shows and movies. At one point a choreographer could never have a tv show but that is no longer true. How many of us have a video series on iTunes when it is totally possible and incredibly easy. However it is not just the method of delivery that has to be recognized and capitalized upon but the content as well. How many choreographers are responding to the President, the war in Iraq and other issues that seem to be important. Are we afraid that the President is going to come and get us if we speak out against him with our art? Are we afraid that others won’t like us if we speak out for him? How can we put dance in the culture rather than expect the world to come to us.

    Comment by Boris Willis — May 19, 2007 @ 3:04 pm

  6. boris’s comment is an interesting one that makes me think about what dance means to me. on the one hand, i think his is a really clear and valid point about remaining relevant to the world, rather than ignoring it, falling behind and then whining that no one’s interested in our work. i know there are a few choreographers who remain in tune and stimulated by new ideas in technology–like merce cunningham and his experiments with choreography software or ipods, or (closer to home) maida withers, who’s used youtube to show off local dance. but it’s true, those examples are few and far between, and perhaps that does make us increasingly irrelevant.

    but, on the other hand, i know that what attracts me to modern dance is precisely that it can be so weird and out there, that it’s a way of letting oneself go into another place and perhaps let go of this reality for a while. and it’s a chance to try to capture something totally different. in all honesty, i’m not sure i’d be especially interested in dance if being relevant were a serious qualification. that’s not to disparage boris’s point, but just to expand the discussion a bit (if anyone’s still following this) and pose the question of what it means to be relevant to today’s era, and if that’s the only way to appeal to people.

    Comment by Amanda Abrams — May 24, 2007 @ 12:46 pm

  7. hmmmmmm,

    1. modern/post-modern dance choreographers are no more weird than modern/post-modern painters or sculptures, but dancers have worst press agents and no “thing” that can be bought and sold.

    2. There is a “vetting” process - those choreographers who always have to open their own checkbook to pay for their performances stop eventually (for the most part). Most dancers and choreographers get sucked up into their day jobs and they stop in their late 20s or mid 30s. If you meet someone in their 40s who is still dancing than they have figured something out.

    3. I have no fucking idea what modern dance is anymore. Am I a modern dancer? or a post-modern dancer? I don’t think so - I’m not using Graham technique, nor am I trying to recreate the experiments of Judson Church. I’m more influenced by them than say, hip-hop or ballet - but I am not trying to do what they did. I’m not even doing “new” dance, nor straight improv dance. I dance and I don’t have a better label for it right now.

    4. Relevance - I say do what interests you, passionately. But, then, you do have a responsibility to open yourself, your process, your art, to as many people as can come in. Talk with people, blog, use YouTube, perform everywhere, for anyone. Give and give again. And…how many people do you want to be relevant for?

    Comment by Daniel Burkholder — May 27, 2007 @ 8:15 pm

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