Thoughts and Ideas
Conversation Starter
Recently I overheard an authority figure speaking on writing. He was emphasizing the practice of "show don't tell", the writing practice that actively engages the reader to fill in negative space, to enter the story. He said all other forms of art are passive to the audience except reading, when the writer shows not tells. I was triggered. Are you? How is he right? How is he wrong? Discuss the difference in dance performance that actively engages the audience versus a performance that is passive entertainment. Discuss other art forms that engage the viewer. How is it done? Justify a need for each, passive entertainment and active engagement.
Musing
What is negative space in dance?
Creative Experiment
Explore "show not tell". Create a movement series that you feel is passive entertainment. Create a movement series that you feel promotes active audience engagement. Show both to a friend and discuss the efforts and results.
Quote: "Art Should Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable" Cesar Cruz
Escape and Inspiration
Participate in a free workshop at "The Inclusive Performance Festival", http://www.dandeliondancetheater.org/inclusive-performance-festival/ Learn from our own Emmaly Wiederholt who will be teaching a Writing Inclusively about Dance workshop based on her work with Stance on Dance tomorrow, Tuesday, April 6th at 3:30 Mountain Time.
Enjoy the ABT Incubator each Monday with weekly premiers of new choreography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEJbWV7mQUA
check out the free virtual comedy shows by "The Box Performance Space and Improv Theater" https://www.theboxabq.com/
Follow the Ernest Hemingway documentary series on PBS tonight at 7pm
reflect through visual art "In the Wake" an online exhibit from the New Mexico Art league https://newmexicoartleague.org/page-1804228 which looks at art created in the wake of the pandemic, or check out the work of 93 New Mexico Master painters at the Master Works exhibit https://masterworksnm.org/2021-gallery/
