In the middle of a murky wade through Merleau-Ponty, I was overwhelmed by a brainstorm. I barely got a bookmark on the page before furiously writing ideas for my thesis and possible conference presentation. It was so cool!
Because dance scholarship is fairly new to academia, methodologies have not been established in the same way the scientific method or argument-based essay has been. How do you textually describe movement? Or even worse, how do you describe the emotional/psychological/visceral experiences movement produces?
So in terms of a conference presentation, I would definitely rely on the visual - using 2 volunteers to explore the "sexiness" of relative position (standing together vs. standing apart, etc). In both a presentation and my thesis, I want to have some sort of compilation of examples of tango in pop culture = movies. And the first example is The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which is a silent movie from 1921, starring Rudolph Valentino. And it is nearly impossible to find. But I found a distributor that not only has it, but has it for cheap and with free shipping! Ah retail research.
on iTunes: "Failure" - Ian Ball
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