If we thought of dancers as tax-paying adults, if we took them seriously, then we’d have to take seriously the message common across practically all dance: that the life of the body matters. The moment matters: it matters how you feel, what you do to your body and to other bodies. This is what dance, unforgivably, says: the flesh is good.
Pro Everyone Minding Their Own Fucking Business About What Other People Do To Their Bodies
When I fuck you for the first time, it might scare you a little bit - because I’m a man, and I know how to do things.
Goatstock 2009 - benefit for Jimmy Zell
RIP Big Wallie and Jimmy
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“In her work on the physical attributes of gender conditioning, Iris Young tries to articulate the phenomenological basis of feminine bodily compartment by distinguishing three modalities of feminine movement: ambiguous transcendence, inhibited intentionality, and discontinuous unity. Basically this is fancy philosophical language for throwing like a girl - which is to say, using a body part in a manner that is totally disconnected from the rest of one’s weight and strength…Young girls and women are trained not to take up the space around them, not to use the capacity of their whole body when engaging in physical activity, and not to fully project their physical intentions onto the world around them,”
- Ann Cooper Albright, Choreographing Difference
Dear Sylvie,
please let me transform into you.
Love and adoration,
Amanda
Sarah Burke helped pave the way for women freestyle skiers. She left this world far too soon, but her legacy will live on through the 2014 Olympic Superpipe skiing event!
—Which would you prefer?
—NATURE DEFICIT DISORDER
A recent study from Australia found that of the 1975
children surveyed, 37% of children spent less than
half an hour a day playing outdoors after school, and
43% spent more than 2 hours a day on screen time
(i.e. watching TV, videos or playing computer
games).
The story is similar from most urban places
round the world. In the US, between 1997 to 2003,
studies have documented a 50% decline in time that
9-12 year olds are spending outdoors. Issues of
safety, both working parents, lack of parks and
natural surroundings in our bleak urban landscape
and the lure of the TV and computer are important
reasons why children are spending more time
indoors. Richard Louv, in his book “Last child in the
Woods,” has coined a new term “nature deficit
disorder” which includes a range of behavioral
problems. He argues that sensationalist media
coverage and paranoid parents have literally “scared
children straight out of the woods and fields,” while
promoting a litigious culture of fear that favors
“safe” regimented sports over imaginative play.
In the US they have now launched a public
service mass advertisement campaign “Leave no
child indoors”. The campaign is aimed at tweens ( 8-
12 year olds) to foster a life long interest and love in
nature. Besides improving their physical and
psychological health, it will make them more
environmentally conscious (Scientific American, 4
August 2009).
I love when I find out ideas I have had about life are not just my own idle banter. Scholarly support that nature is key to life!
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass….it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.
No congruency to this thing. Just random.
