Saturday, December 29, 2007

"Western dance scholars have not used the word ethnic in its objective sense; they have used it as a euphemism for such old fashioned terms as "heathen", "pagan", "savage", or the more recent term "exotic". ...
[D]ue to the social climate which rejects the connotations with which our former words for "they" were invested, and because of a certain sophistication assumed by the apologists for the "they", English-speaking scholars were hard -pressed to find designations for the kinds of non-Western dance which they wished to discuss. "




in "An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance" by Joann Kealiinohomoku

Thursday, December 06, 2007

"Everybody wants to be perfect, often forgetting that perfection is based on marvelous mistakes"


written on the wall between 1998-2000 EDDC (Arnhem)