Unarchiving: Amnesia & Innocence
"Task
--Get Wut music to wut to
--compose silence
--sonata of bodies struggling
--R, I & A in dark yelling and me dancing -composing Cage's traffic and silence"
I performed in a show called “Tanzwut” by Anne-Mareike Hess. Tanzwut were the dancing plagues of the middle ages where people would dance themselves to death. We danced a lot to electronic music in this show, and I was able to reach a transcendent state of exhaustion and catharsis in a solo at the end. Here is a playlist I put together of music that speaks to my soul and makes my spirit want to use my dancing as a springboard to leap out and quench its longing for the divine and the ecstatic. Some songs that get me going from my depths are pure happiness and fun. Other songs are insistent and focused. Other songs bring in a folk element that emerges from the rock/modern world…the folk element (maybe a violin) catapults my spirit…suddenly the weight of history and tradition and a sense of a “people” springboard the song to exponential heights.
Las Flores – Café Tacuba (the MTV unplugged live performance especially where the Huasteca violinist and singer comes in halfway through and they do a rock / folk collaboration.)
Baba O’Riley – The Who
The Great Gig in the Sky – Pink Floyd
Pure/Honey – Beyonce
Pluto – Bjork
Ain’t No Way – Aretha Franklin
Zar music – Makan (Egyptian place/band out of Cairo)
Truth – Kamasi Washington
What is Love – Haddaway (thinking of the episode where Ricky dances in the 90s one-season drama series starring Claire Danes called “My So Called Life”)
Gypsy Woman – Crystal Waters (thinking of the dance piece “Existential” by Diego Oliveira based out of Amsterdam)
Y Control – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ – Michael Jackson
Closer – Nine Inch Nails
Touched – Vast
As – Stevie Wonder
Dormir Soñando – El Gran Silencio
La Tierra del Olvido – Carlos Vives
Dejame Entrar en tu Mirada – Carlos Vives
Isobel – Rima Kcheich (cover of Bjork)
La Gota Fria – Carlos Vives
We Found Love – Rihanna
Disorder – Joy Division
Jarocho Elegua – Quetzal
Flying Theme from “E.T.” – John Williams
Something in the Way – Nirvana
Smalltown Boy – Bronski Beat
Sound of Kuduro – Buraka Som Sistema & M.I.A.
Atomic – Blondie
House of Jealous Lovers - The Rapture
Fruta Fresca – Carlos Vives
Dance This Mess Around – The B-52s
Magalenha – Sergio Mendes
El Cascabel – Quetzal (and any other Mexican band or mariachi group)
Nails, Hair, Hips, Heels – Todrick Hall
Blow – Beyonce
Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR, aid programm DIS-TANZEN by the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland