lotta and i finally have a video record of our evening performance on g street during the improv festival! my friend jeff shot and edited it; he did a great job and i think it looks terrific.
please check it out!
unfortunately i STILL can’t figure out how to embed a youtube video onto this blog, so you’ll have to click through to watch it.
for awhile now i’ve been meaning to check out the electric possible, “dc’s mad monthly laboratory for promethean sound experiments,” as their website says. i’m not actually a major fan of experimental music, but i really respect that this is going on in dc. and i know that some of the musicians collaborate w/ local dancers. i think ginger wagg did something with them last month.
the next show is nov. 4.
the details:
first sunday of each month
These are *early* shows from 8:00-10:30pm
Cost only $5–All money goes to the artists!
LOCATION:
Phillips Hall,
801 22nd St, NW,
Rm B120 (in the basement)
(22nd and H Streets/GW Metro)
George Washington University
this article appeared in today’s new york times. it’s about the natural union of music and dance, and begins like this:
The fall concert season has begun at music halls around the world, and audiences are again sitting in rapt attention with their hands folded quietly in their laps. Does anyone besides me find this odd?
Through tens of thousands of years of evolutionary history, music has nearly always occurred together with dance. Even today, most of the world’s languages use a single word to mean both music and dance. The indivisibility of movement and sound, the anthropologist John Blacking has noted, characterizes music across cultures and across times.
i know that personally, i can barely enjoy a concert–of any type–if i can’t dance. honestly. it’s just boring otherwise. nice to see that i’m not, at heart, unusual in this way.
he also says this:
Singing and dancing have been shown to modulate brain chemistry, specifically levels of dopamine, the “feel good” neurotransmitter.
yes! yes! yes!
image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace