About this blog
These are reflections on my experience with pain in dance (both dancing and watching) as well as other arts. This is the less theoretical, more personal application of the headier, abstracter, academicer stuff in my dissertation, tentatively titled "Phantom Limbs: Reading Pain in Contemporary Concert Dance." The dissertation tries to assemble phenomenology with the material conditions of the theater to provide a rich account of experiencing dance (which is as visceral as visual). So my point with the blog is not so much to provide a review or criticism of the pieces as much as it is a grounds for exploring and articulating my experience as an individual spectator and as a brief resident in the world effused by the piece.
I'd love to hear about your experiences regarding the pieces I'm writing about, and I also welcome your recommendations.