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To dance is not an intellectual act that requires study. One can be a scholar of dance and look at all of its intricate building blocks and histories, make them mysterious and house them in an academy. Once in the academy it is attacked by academe as being frivolous so it aligns itself within the academy in ways that reduce its ability to be criticized and then begins to criticize dance that does not resemble it. It becomes a thing unto itself. an ecosystem for training and educating dancers and hiring teachers and choreographers and putting on productions. it survives when the world around it crumbles but it is stagnant. eventually it destroys itself and remakes itself anew. coming soon american idol and so you think you can dance on tour, when that happens the academy will follow

You say it’s money that you need
As if we’re only mouths to feed
—The Arcade Fire, “Intervention”

Our economic and political systems, whatever advantages they offer us, sell freedom with a hidden price: an expectation that we become passive observers to the exercise of real power. The wealthy believe we should participate economically but not politically, that we should channel our energies—our ability to influence the forces that shape our lives—into the purchase of things that give us the illusion of control.
So we seek bigger houses/vehicles/ TVs and smaller computers/cell phones, lots of gadgets we can manipulate at will. And not surprisingly, our focus on diversions further isolates us, physically and psychologically, from others.

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