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May 3, 2019 · Collusion

Chocolate Heads The Chocolate Ball for Polymaths

Chocolate Heads The Chocolate Ball for Polymaths

Chocolate Heads: The Chocolate Ball for Polymaths in Green Library, Stanford University. He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.Β  Leonardo da Vinci Chocolate Heads: The Chocolate Ball for Polymaths Green Library, Stanford University. A performance as part […]

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LINES Ballet Polaroids, Reunion Island

LINES Ballet Polaroids, Reunion Island

Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world. Patti Smith These Polaroids of bodies caught mid-leap off Reunion Island’s volcanic rock, they’re not documentation, they’re evidence of a crime against physics. In those original […]

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Dancing on the Edge of the World, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust the Mountain

Dancing on the Edge of the World, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust the Mountain

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change. Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel Standing on top of a volcanic ridge in the middle of the Indian Ocean, watching two impossibly flexible […]

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Dancing on Magma: How to Murder Your Teachers

RΓ©union Island Volcano with Alonzo King LINES Ballet. You stand there in front of someone else’s vision, whether it’s Diane Arbus showing you how broken people are beautiful or Cartier-Bresson with his decisive moment horseshit, and it gets inside you like a virus, like Burroughs’ language virus, and suddenly you’re not seeing anymore, you’re remembering […]

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Dancing on Magma: How to Murder Your Teachers
Volcanic Frequencies: Pole Star and the Geography of Motion

Volcanic Frequencies: Pole Star and the Geography of Motion

Pole Star isn’t ballet as usual or some cross cultural mash note. This is something else, bodies moving through my Reunion Island footage like they are mapping coordinates between volcanic eruptions and the Δ‘Γ n bαΊ§u’s single string howl, between lava fields cooling into black glass and Vietnamese tradition stretched taut across a stage at YBCA […]

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April 14, 2019 · Engineering

Palo Alto Tower Well

Palo Alto Tower Well

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. W. H. Auden, First Things First, 1956 Seventy eight feet of reinforced concrete. Corner of Alma and Hawthorne. Built in 1910. A water tower. 155,000 gallons. It helped establish Palo Alto’s city-owned utility system, back when the city actually built things for the public good, imagine […]

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The Deep Art: Rehearsal as Sacrament

The Deep Art: Rehearsal as Sacrament

The deep art… That’s the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money… Like a dope addict would his dope… Like a lover with their love. Alonzo King ο»Ώο»Ώο»Ώο»Ώο»Ώ What I’ve got here is the real raw nerve ending of creation caught mid spasm: dancers drilling themselves into some kind of […]

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