MILON QUIS [words for dance]
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This book written by Israel Aloni is the result of two decades of movement research and corporeal art-making—a practice grounded in the body’s intimate dialogue with language and perception. It offers a mutable dictionary: a collection of terms, exercises, and reflections that resist definition and instead provoke, reconfigure, and expand. Designed for artists, movers, researchers, and those who sense that reality is not received but made, this lexicon invites a form of active noticing—where the body becomes a site of world-making, and practice becomes a way of constructing meaning. A methodology in flux, both rigorous and fluid, for training, exploration, and creation.
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About This Book...
What does writing do to dance?
Writing as practice. The practice of writing. Writing that is being practiced but also writing that practices the person who is writing. By writing, the person is practiced, they become practical, they are a practical being engaged in a practical task.
Writing is practice also in the sense that it brings language into a realm in which practical things occur…
The continuous attempt to write about dance, as if there are any ways to invite the reader to what actually occurs when dance occurs only highlights the impossibility of the task. And yet, we keep doing it…
We speak to a different agent than the one we dance to, when writing that is.
They are not one and the same, although we might argue that they are one but not the same.
The agent who does the writing and the agent who does the reading attempt to meet in some way and that meeting too is different from that which is possible and probable with dance.
Maybe this is a distinction that is good to make. There is some dance which is grammatical – it is bound to linguistic rules and forms – logic. This is a dance that tries to do with body-space-time what we do with pen-paper-ink. Another dance is that which derives from another agent in us and addresses a different agent in the recipient.
(Israel Aloni, 13 September 2024)