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“I think maybe the future of dance is not a single person bossing people around until he or she dies,” she said. “Maybe it’s the generation of an inquiry, based on a system, a methodology that gets established somehow, maybe through a single person’s provocation. Something more like an oral history than the work of a single author. I didn’t really invent this format, because physics exists. I just combined the conditions I was obsessed with, like hardware and action, and then spent thirty years fiddling with them. Who knows where it could go if I get out of the way.”

“What would you do then?”

She took a moment to respond. “I could do a walkabout somewhere in Africa or Asia,” she said. “Wave my flag and walk off into the desert.”



http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/29/rough-and-tumble

Can dance be both an art form and a sport? What do you think qualifies as art, and does it have to be meaningful for you? Is this form of dance worth the risk these dancers take with their bodies? What’s the most extreme physical activity you’ve done and how does it compare to what the dancers in the film pull off?

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/born-to-fly/

Personal ideas: I leant the new art form about the dance and movement in modern culture. I used to think dance is a way to express feelings ideas and emotions, but when dancers seek more about themselves, they express the things that they understand. Her topic changed lots of people's thought nowadays, and have a great influence for modern society.