Well, you know how it is, city life that is! If the city teaches you one thing it teaches you how to navigate people! Some people invite collisions (Ouch!), others want to brush up against you (or vice versa!). Others take a side step left or left/left/right, just to keep you in their sights. Fitting, then that the topic of this dissertation is dance, or more precisely a show. I'll have it that we quickly flow or travel from the nuances of the spoken word to the pressing needs of dance language.
Chicago the Musical, I caught it just the other night, boshed me over the head with a swift kick, a discordant pirouette and All... that... Jazz.
I caught the touring version with Jennifer Ellison (precocious and energetic) as Roxy and Dawn Spence as Velma Kelly. No doubt, Spence upstaged Ellison with a sterling and accomplished performance. Her spotlight scene, dancing to impress Roxy was like an education in Jazz Dance, flowing and writhing like a muscular ballerina.
The dancing from the male department was muted, until the spotlight fell on them. By hell! Can these guys dance! C'est superb!
Perhaps the most important thing about Chicago, other than its undoubted ability to entertain is its popularity. Why, now is Chicago sooo big?
Well, if you stop for breath while being carried left, right, reach, step ball change with the cast, you'll begin to see its resonance.
Crime, law suits, greed, promiscuity, a selfish society and, in one scene, nostalgia for the past when people "had some class". Sound familiar? Thought so!
Chicago is just so Post-feminist! These ladies are the Spice Girls (apologies to the cast) of the '50's.
John Kander's Trad. Jazz score feverishly bounces along, repetitious, sleazy and witty, like a smaller-scale, Bernstein's West Side Story.
Ultimately, Chicago's direction mixes Modernist references with wit, guffaws and sheer entertainment. Chicago is like Postmodernism before Postmodernism ever came around!
Still haven't caught the show?
Go see!
After the show I got stuck in a car park for an hour, in one of Britians' finest cities! I lit a cigarette and figured how to escape the jam and join the traffic flow. With "Razzle Dazzle" still circumnavigating my brain I dropped a gear and moonwalked home!
30 Sept 2006
28 Sept 2006
from THE DAYLIGHT SECTIONS (43)
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pure repertoire
performed once,
embodies affair
de coeur
to equal
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accumulated shinelight
pure repertoire
performed once,
embodies affair
de coeur
to equal
infinite,
accumulated shinelight
27 Sept 2006
25 Sept 2006
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24 Sept 2006
24/09/2006
I meant to write nothing today. I am currently watching time bosh mi ov'r the head and work crash like a ship. my images won't load down onto blog and websites - the sacking of employees is a necessity before the company goes sinking 5,000 fathoms an' then some.
Mind you the dance is still contagious, like a still music. Three meetings next week and a harbour unnamed terror incognito! Or the seed of a trout. The clock is still fathomable as words tumble to page an' the rumble in my ruffled 'ead.
Tony Blair is post, or past, whatever! We have no opposition to New Labour. I shall roboticize myself in the new market for stringent figures, inhumaness, tighter deadlines, no pensions and no hope of a new job.
We are all administrators holding on to an England that lives in a memory or a poem like Jerusalem. The tighening of centralized power cannot escape the fall of identity. We hunt like sharks for sex to blight the headache of a postmodern nothingness, immanent and half existent.
Either that, the gym, beer, cigs,
start your own business
Mind you the dance is still contagious, like a still music. Three meetings next week and a harbour unnamed terror incognito! Or the seed of a trout. The clock is still fathomable as words tumble to page an' the rumble in my ruffled 'ead.
Tony Blair is post, or past, whatever! We have no opposition to New Labour. I shall roboticize myself in the new market for stringent figures, inhumaness, tighter deadlines, no pensions and no hope of a new job.
We are all administrators holding on to an England that lives in a memory or a poem like Jerusalem. The tighening of centralized power cannot escape the fall of identity. We hunt like sharks for sex to blight the headache of a postmodern nothingness, immanent and half existent.
Either that, the gym, beer, cigs,
start your own business
21 Sept 2006
from THE DAYLIGHT SECTIONS (42)
wall-to-wall infatuation comes with an immunity to fragrance-free intention
I was explaining to my neighbor the beauty of gray walls
he is a young person cultured and he photographs night species in the desert
when it is time to return home he puts away the flashlight
not one of us is perfect in our application of the instruments
and whosoever shall become synonymous with accomplishment shall be bathed in history
now becomes the perfect altitude for an assessment by the nearby gods as plural as they look
as always come-to-mama waylays the stiff upper hemline of kinesics
I was explaining to my neighbor the beauty of gray walls
he is a young person cultured and he photographs night species in the desert
when it is time to return home he puts away the flashlight
not one of us is perfect in our application of the instruments
and whosoever shall become synonymous with accomplishment shall be bathed in history
now becomes the perfect altitude for an assessment by the nearby gods as plural as they look
as always come-to-mama waylays the stiff upper hemline of kinesics
20 Sept 2006
19 Sept 2006
17 Sept 2006
16 Sept 2006
You say you rule the world
CEREBELLA
we are the we are the whole world
CLUPATTA CLUPPATTA AADVARK
You say you rule the world
CEREBELLA
we are the we are the whole world
CLUPATTA CLUPPATTA AADVARK
huit heurs a huit heurs ca sans dans biblioteque
All ends up this way.
Faon CLUPUTTA CLUPPATTA AADVARK
Fawn espresso
How can I disagree?
Your movement is
charged electric
objet objet d'emotion
You've got no yolk to stand on
precept the circle about you feet
Your ballet frozen
in motion accord to break
You say the world turns on my shoulders
stars flicker 'twixt your ether
twist art clairvoyance
Iris cerebella into it yo
stares chance
You say you rule the world
CEREBELLA
we are the we are the whole world
16th September
huit heur a huit heur ca sans dans biblioteque
All ends up this way.
Faon CLUPUTTA CLUPPATTA AADVARK
Fawn espresso
How can I disagree?
Your movement is
You say you rule the world
CEREBELLA
we are the we are the whole world
CLUPATTA CLUPPATTA AADVARK
huit heurs a huit heurs ca sans dans biblioteque
All ends up this way.
Faon CLUPUTTA CLUPPATTA AADVARK
Fawn espresso
How can I disagree?
Your movement is
charged electric
objet objet d'emotion
You've got no yolk to stand on
precept the circle about you feet
Your ballet frozen
in motion accord to break
You say the world turns on my shoulders
stars flicker 'twixt your ether
twist art clairvoyance
Iris cerebella into it yo
stares chance
charged electric
objet objet d'emotion
You've got no yolk to stand on
precept the circle about you feet
Your ballet frozen
in motion accord to break
You say the world turns on my shoulders
stars flicker 'twixt your ether
twist art clairvoyance
Iris cerebella into it yo
stares chance
CEREBELLA
we are the we are the whole world
CLUPATTA CLUPPATTA AADVARK
You say you rule the world
CEREBELLA
we are the we are the whole world
CLUPATTA CLUPPATTA AADVARK
huit heurs a huit heurs ca sans dans biblioteque
All ends up this way.
Faon CLUPUTTA CLUPPATTA AADVARK
Fawn espresso
How can I disagree?
Your movement is
charged electric
objet objet d'emotion
You've got no yolk to stand on
precept the circle about you feet
Your ballet frozen
in motion accord to break
You say the world turns on my shoulders
stars flicker 'twixt your ether
twist art clairvoyance
Iris cerebella into it yo
stares chance
You say you rule the world
CEREBELLA
we are the we are the whole world
16th September
The common sense
of the ordinary man
is lost in a government plan
CLUPATTA CLUPPATTA AADVARK
huit heurs a huit heurs ca sans dans biblioteque
All ends up this way.
Faon CLUPUTTA CLUPPATTA AADVARK
Fawn espresso
How can I disagree?
Your movement is
charged electric
objet objet d'emotion
huit heurs a huit heurs ca sans dans biblioteque
All ends up this way.
Faon CLUPUTTA CLUPPATTA AADVARK
Fawn espresso
How can I disagree?
Your movement is
charged electric
objet objet d'emotion
23/09/2006
feel the gentle romanticism
not bad enough to reject the urban
but to breakthrough in notes emotes
touch unfounded. Love against our restricted selves
You've got no yolk to stand on
precept the circle about you feet
Your ballet frozen
in motion accord to break
You've got no yolk to stand on
precept the circle about you feet
Your ballet frozen
in motion accord to break
rumble you for soy
I'll blame you for the starlit sky!
You say the world turns on my shoulders
stars flicker 'twixt your ether
twist art clairvoyance
Iris cerebella into it yo
stares chance
You say the world turns on my shoulders
stars flicker 'twixt your ether
twist art clairvoyance
Iris cerebella into it yo
stares chance
huit heur a huit heur ca sans dans biblioteque
All ends up this way.
Faon CLUPUTTA CLUPPATTA AADVARK
Fawn espresso
How can I disagree?
Your movement is
You say you rule the world
CEREBELLA
we are the we are the whole world
CLUPATTA CLUPPATTA AADVARK
huit heurs a huit heurs ca sans dans biblioteque
All ends up this way.
Faon CLUPUTTA CLUPPATTA AADVARK
Fawn espresso
How can I disagree?
Your movement is
charged electric
objet objet d'emotion
You've got no yolk to stand on
precept the circle about you feet
Your ballet frozen
in motion accord to break
You say the world turns on my shoulders
stars flicker 'twixt your ether
twist art clairvoyance
Iris cerebella into it yo
stares chance
charged electric
objet objet d'emotion
You've got no yolk to stand on
precept the circle about you feet
Your ballet frozen
in motion accord to break
You say the world turns on my shoulders
stars flicker 'twixt your ether
twist art clairvoyance
Iris cerebella into it yo
stares chance
13 Sept 2006
12 Sept 2006
11 Sept 2006
8 Sept 2006
from THE DAYLIGHT SECTIONS (41)
if even a lean strip of elastic is inlaid into the expanse of summer, its shelf life is extended. lozenge after lozenge changes constitution of the body's headrest. I have learned repeatedly that I know nothing in this life expect the dowry of experience. and something hurts against my better judgment. all that I can do is tell you cinder after cinder as it learns that shine dissolves an image by distracting sensory indulgence. sliver of a mirror cell condemns darkness by allocating space for unexpected happiness. and pleasure in small stages stays contagious. in a little while the earthworm will have played a tunnel from a cluster of earth molecules toward another. what difference does it make that yellow birds might sing? who captures and who has capability of remaking every birth of sound? the captions that go with our skin induce perfume. when warm, recipients release the formality of obedience in favor of deliberate appearing shadows. now and at the hour.
7 Sept 2006
6 Sept 2006
4 Sept 2006
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3 Sept 2006
from THE DAYLIGHT SECTIONS (40)
these louvered doors
how unsafely they emit pleasing
and otherwise tall beams
nobody argues
nobody says why can't these plants live on
nothing but because we empathize . . .
the sure dew lifts and now
we have blooms also
small feathers left here
demonstrate the mood and summer
whose mood fits
my own dream resonates with
who is in the dream
who stays after
who stays overtime
and what is left to come
how unsafely they emit pleasing
and otherwise tall beams
nobody argues
nobody says why can't these plants live on
nothing but because we empathize . . .
the sure dew lifts and now
we have blooms also
small feathers left here
demonstrate the mood and summer
whose mood fits
my own dream resonates with
who is in the dream
who stays after
who stays overtime
and what is left to come
2 Sept 2006
from THE DAYLIGHT SECTIONS (39)
there is no winter in the damages
one plays in comfortable surroundings
I love you for example
when morning
the dewbirds rain away
and then a fabled innocence
replays the dark as if and everafter
there will be a tiny oval sun
crayoned yellow to exceed
the expectations of a Monday left alone
to tithe and render an informal
latitude on seasoned expectations
I always harbor you
I look at thick glass and I memorize
"not this" where "this" might have been
and I return to laboratory mention
of the negative I brought to life
I study that
I temper what I feel by looking hard
and then looking away
momentary madness lives upon the brink
of free time where the limber overlay
of moral brackets house one or another
thought
one plays in comfortable surroundings
I love you for example
when morning
the dewbirds rain away
and then a fabled innocence
replays the dark as if and everafter
there will be a tiny oval sun
crayoned yellow to exceed
the expectations of a Monday left alone
to tithe and render an informal
latitude on seasoned expectations
I always harbor you
I look at thick glass and I memorize
"not this" where "this" might have been
and I return to laboratory mention
of the negative I brought to life
I study that
I temper what I feel by looking hard
and then looking away
momentary madness lives upon the brink
of free time where the limber overlay
of moral brackets house one or another
thought
poema reread
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1 Sept 2006
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