tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9855226018345725172024-03-05T02:06:55.702-08:00The Gesture & The Citizenpolitics of viewing, politics of practice, politics of movement, prattein polisDoctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-25700170769299600652013-09-14T15:59:00.000-07:002013-09-14T15:59:43.605-07:00Why I don't Care About Miley Cyrus
In a word: redux.
There are only so many times you can watch poorly rehearsed, choreographed works and get all lathered up about them. By now we should recognize that this type of "performance" is a 21st century technique. Ragged edges, ridiculous juxtapositions, racially erratic/erotic signals deployed by a media brand that should "know better" is not about ignorance or even malevolence. It's Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-34664482463766854772012-03-06T15:32:00.002-08:002012-03-06T15:34:24.653-08:00Mentoring at SXSW 2012I am pleased to announce that I will be a mentor at SXSW this year! I'm excited to bring my special brand of coaching to the conference. I look forward to meeting some incredible people!
http://austin2012.sched.org/speaker/annabeatricescott
Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-88915227300738654312012-01-01T21:42:00.000-08:002012-01-01T21:53:18.545-08:00Iemanjá's FootprintsIt's customary in Brasil to head to the ocean for New Year's Eve to thank the Mother of Fishes, Iemanjá for all that she did to help keep your family coherent, cohesive and flourishing. All about the family, by extension, she is also about community and nation building. Iemanjá's dance moves like the tide coming in and out. With hands outstretched like a fan or foam on the waves, Iemanjá stitchesDoctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-83530303755972211552011-09-21T10:41:00.000-07:002011-09-21T10:41:30.664-07:00Choreographing WritingOften scholarly types get hung up at the outline. This link is to a very useful list of things to do to create a book to build a personal brand. I find this interesting because being identified as a scholars is and has always been beholden to personal branding. We had a corner on that market and never named it!
Go read this article. Full of useful ideas, the author, Roger Parker, makes a pointDoctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-88492868186956530802011-09-09T17:15:00.000-07:002011-09-09T17:15:21.577-07:00Das Racists and Video Dance HistoryGet More: Das Racist, Music, More Music Videos
Can you name all the Michael Jackson music videos cited in this new one?
There is likely some insane inside joke here about earning 1M just by saying "Michael Jackson," but I find using pastiche as a mode of production, not just presentation, quite interesting. Das Racists are definitely "overedumacated" traffickers in histrionics and assorted Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-80341193398569118902011-07-21T21:18:00.000-07:002011-07-21T21:20:58.101-07:00Live Action AdvertsIncreasingly, the dance flash mob is casted, and professionally choreographed. Perhaps T-Mobile's series in 2007 did it best, literally cramming a train station full of dancers who rocked out so hard, their infectious enthusiasm spread to passersby who picked up snippets of the choreo and joined in. Lately, however, the drive to control the message of the flash mob has generated a fourth wall in Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-11539971057015516192011-07-14T10:57:00.000-07:002011-07-14T10:57:26.027-07:00To Dance is To Calculate
Science Fiction writer, math coach, and former ballerina Catherine Asaro discusses how Western classical dance is an obvious form of physics. She goes on to talk about the math of classical music as well. All very rooted in"The Great Western Traditions," this interview still works to show how the division between art, science, and math is a false one that breeds gender bias and forecloses Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-88398559830023632972011-07-09T23:11:00.000-07:002011-07-09T23:12:56.551-07:00Choice Time: Why Being Able To Choose Stops Action in its Tracks
From a corporeal perspective, this type of alienation returns as an excess of gesticulation, of disordered patterns seeking amelioration through organized communal release. The indecisive nature of modern society is best resolved through the ordered patterning of group choreography, as delineated in the above video. However, from a pure choreography perspective, we can then understand the Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-69517103489048441712011-01-19T00:39:00.000-08:002011-01-19T00:39:18.217-08:00Dance and Value: roots in the drum
This week in Afrologica (where most of my blogging has been taking place for 2010), we are investigating how value is created in dance as well as hot spots to take dance that are embedded in a drum culture. I thought it would be interesting to start by looking at the Danza Contemporanea De Cuba, as they exist as an arts entity that is highly prized in a country where dance arts are vibrant and Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-14965917710659857562010-02-18T09:15:00.000-08:002010-02-18T09:15:34.949-08:00Digital Media and Learning ConferenceThis is a quick note about a conference where I will perform in a few hours! The MacArthur Foundation is supporting the Digital Media and Learning Hub at UC Irvine to host its first conference on the topic. Registration was closed once they hit the 400 attendee mark! That is great, and yet, kinda terrible, because there does not appear to be a streaming alternative.
Well, I am working on Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-91846540358682270572010-01-07T22:30:00.000-08:002010-01-07T23:44:15.264-08:00Pandora's Box or Aunt Kizzy in the Kitchen? Avatar, an illicit memoirIn Second Life, I am homeless. Not only am I homeless, but I am trapped on some wild island with creatures similar to the ones I just saw in 3D in the film, Avatar. And this island was designed and is populated by Germans, who all have very intensely colored bodies and costumes. I am dressed in flare jeans and baby doll dress top. I was asked if I was African, in German of course. That was Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-49559672592224606932009-11-24T02:50:00.000-08:002009-11-24T05:40:54.562-08:00How does Shakira "have it all?"<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; Melissa B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05339721604704476887noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-91398223265713845522009-09-29T19:32:00.000-07:002009-09-29T22:03:38.434-07:00Bouncing Bundles of Beyoncé or Beyoncé brings the bottleAll the Single Ladies is one weird song. It has to have the weirdest dance break I have heard in a long time. I mean, weird. The dance break, aka, the bridge, is usually that transitional moment in a song where you, the listener, are swept up and transported to another key, or even meter: your limbic system is commandeered, synaesthesia is induced (this music is hot, what a sweet riff, etc), and Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-73875373798822305382009-09-24T09:46:00.000-07:002009-09-24T12:47:43.242-07:00'Suda el Jamon' - Latin America Nike CampaignI was first introduced to this advert by a student in my Dance, Politics and Identity class and would like to share it with all of you.
As someone who has several family members who have gone 'under the knife,' I like the subversive potential of the message, especially for the bourgeois Latin American culture that it was initially geared towards, yet the you-tube commentary (as well as my Melissa B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05339721604704476887noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-32878654498765266192009-04-29T10:53:00.001-07:002009-04-29T10:53:39.421-07:00Dance Day 2009Hey there! SO my dance partners slept through Act 1! I'm in Riverside now, gearing up to challenge the parking lot. Spent the drive in thinking of ways to just make dance a daily gift to commuters. Am I a bit too excited? Yes. Yes I am.Here is a message about the day from the International Dance Council-UNESCO, of which I am a member. Official Message for Dance Day 29 April 2009 The future of Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-66430027893700125202009-04-25T19:45:00.000-07:002009-04-25T22:09:21.775-07:00Transition Town?This morning, I went out to dump my trash. The bag had been nipped a bit by the possum who thinks he's my roommate, or perhaps cousin. The sun was shining, everyone was already up, planning for just how they were going to get to the beach in the next 30 minutes before the rest of LA arrived to our little village. It was perfect Venice: slight breeze, lots of chirping birds, wind in the palms, Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-57150360421344766452009-04-09T00:09:00.000-07:002009-04-09T00:11:05.876-07:00Calling All Jesters/Gestures for Anatomy Riot #31Calling all edge-riders, mad scientists, explorers and instigators: ANATOMY RIOT #31 approaches. The A-Team (Arianne Hoffmann & Anna B. Scott) is looking for new works, old bits, recent drafts, and ancient ideas for a May, 11th 2009 night of performance.With low-tech, do-it-yourself spirit in an easygoing setting, Anatomy Riot is an ongoing (almost) monthly dance/performance series, curated Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-69005078915552450552009-01-31T18:18:00.000-08:002009-01-31T22:24:38.875-08:00Obamanating, Dance, PowerIt was often remarked how unusual the 2008 Presidential campaign was in the United States for the simple fact that the candidates not only made sure to make the rounds of the news talk shows, but they also made the rounds of daytime talk shows and late night television. All of this amounted to, in fact, self-mockery in many cases, often, as int he case of Obama, to give a better sense of the Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-31321044162499021332009-01-25T21:58:00.000-08:002009-01-26T00:43:14.485-08:00Dance, Power, ObamamaniaHaving written these quick perspectives on dance practice and the figure of Obama, I realized that I should look at the man himself dancing. He did a lot of it. It reminds me of that quote, "if I can't dance in your revolution, then I don't want to be a part of it..." often attributed to Emma Goldman. Obama the man seemd to be having a genuinely good time spreading his message wherever he went. Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-74496559458967306402009-01-24T23:21:00.000-08:002009-01-25T00:00:18.491-08:00Obama, Dance, Power IIThe choreostories we inscribe on ourselves to celebrate great passages can often seem obscure if we think of the passage has having only a two-dimensional force: here to there. The election of Barack Obama, plural entity that he is, presents an opportunity for us to rethink the ways in which dance stories are not so much marking a singular transition as they are multiplexing the various elements Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-64789550926456890182009-01-23T18:14:00.000-08:002009-01-23T19:33:01.025-08:00Dance, Power, and ObamaBarack Obama not only inspired people to vote for him, but amoung various black communities, he got people up off their behinds and onto the dance floor. In this blog post, I am simply going to embed a number of the videos I've come across. But I do want to talk about at one point the way that these dances were "dropped" not just to have fun, but to imbue Obama with invincible grace: these Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-30751111493263581472009-01-21T19:53:00.000-08:002009-01-21T20:02:37.039-08:00Dear President ObamaJanuary 15, 2009Barack Hussein ObamaPresident, USA1600 Pennsylvania AVEWashington, DCDear President Obama,Congratulations! Now save the world! I am sure by now you are equally astonished at just how much you have to “fix” and annoyed that you can’t just step in and start your/our own agenda today. So I would like to take this moment to offer you a respite, of sorts, a way to look at the Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-68822956906048282412009-01-16T19:37:00.001-08:002009-01-16T19:40:34.166-08:00Dance as Civic Duty Lecture SeriesThe dates below are subject to change. You should contact anna.scott@ucr.edu to confirm the event 2 days prior.Dance As Civic DutyDancing to shift social discourse has made a comeback; even if there aren't enough stages on which to do it or audience members to pay to see it. With the current economic challenge, dancing is ever more a diverison of choice (it is free, you can move your body how Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-78687638300393021902008-08-22T06:52:00.000-07:002008-08-22T08:44:37.785-07:00Sinews of the CityOnce I went to New Orleans for a PCA/ACA conference. I had last been as a child on an extended family vacation. By that I mean, my extended family on my mother's side all went across the Ponchatrain together into La Plus Belle, country bumpkin Methodist Hicks strolling about the cobblestone of the Bourbon District with our mouths dragging between our feet. My grandmother was still alive, so I Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985522601834572517.post-787075240338478182008-07-01T00:04:00.000-07:002008-07-01T00:05:35.615-07:00Just causeSo that it is not true that I have not yet blogged here, I thought I would jam off a few comments on the housing crash and burn.What crash?I live in Venice, CA. Prices are down, yes, but sales are up. The real dilemma out here is the rental market. With folks quietly pulling their second homes off the market and illegally converting them into summer hostels, actual rental stock is way down while Doctoradancerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433902623339159966noreply@blogger.com0