Tere O'Connor: Unviable Structures / Reblogged from his new blog!!

[Marlon Barrios Solano]

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June 18th, 2010

For the longest time I’ve been thinking about writing a book based on my experience with choreography and my perceptions of the creative process. Since the age of 20 I have spent a lot of time contemplating dance and questioning it. I’ve grappled with questions around what it offers us and what I could accomplish inside of a choreographic practice. I have tried to give shape to a book for a few years, diligently attempting to categorize the information I have amassed to create an organizational system for what I “know.” Last November, I finally set apart a whole week for writing. It was time to sew together a million little ideas I’d started. I left town and scheduled a daily seven-hour writing block in my hotel room thinking to myself, “This is it, time to bang out an outline­ and then a book will follow with ease.” As you may have guessed, this was a huge failure, replete with extra-long procrastination baths and marathon staring-out-the window-sessions unrivaled in the history of human avoidance. Although I didn’t accomplish what I set out to do, what did happen in that week was that I came to terms with the fact that what I “know” is in a state of flux—forever. Particularly since my thinking has been modeled on the open, capricious structures unearthed through my choreographic practice, it became clear that any attempt to concretize ideas in a book would quickly descend into a pit of ricocheting contradictions.

But that’s a good thing.
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