Pleasure + Staying with the Trouble w— Michael J Morris
In this episode, Michael J Morris and I conjure up the dancestors for wisdom and body magic.
we discuss
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How necessary joy + pleasure are to “stay with the trouble”
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Re-imagining the indirectness of our survival and primal needs
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The false binary of survival + pleasure
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The body as the altar + container for magic
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Butoh’s approach to the body and dance, lineage and revolution
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Dance as a way to imagine other ways of being in a body
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Being “with” difficulty and toxicity
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Practicing empathetic embodiment and compassion
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Exploring ordinary movement as dance
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Practicing the aspirational
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Authentic movement as a desire-based practice
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Desire + pleasure as emergent and nonlinear
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Mentioned in the episode —
Staying with the Trouble, Donna Haraway
Pleasure Activism, Adrienne Maree Brown
Eiko Otake, A Body in Places (Fukushima)
Heather Davis, “queer futurity of plastic”
From Trinity to Trinity, Kyoko Hayashi
Deborah Hay, My Body the Buddhist
Making Dances That Matter, Anna Halprin
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