Pleasure + Staying with the Trouble w— Michael J Morris
In this episode, Michael J Morris and I conjure up the dancestors for wisdom and body magic.
we discuss
How necessary joy + pleasure are to “stay with the trouble”
Re-imagining the indirectness of our survival and primal needs
The false binary of survival + pleasure
The body as the altar + container for magic
Butoh’s approach to the body and dance, lineage and revolution
Dance as a way to imagine other ways of being in a body
Being “with” difficulty and toxicity
Practicing empathetic embodiment and compassion
Exploring ordinary movement as dance
Practicing the aspirational
Authentic movement as a desire-based practice
Desire + pleasure as emergent and nonlinear
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Staying with the Trouble, Donna Haraway
Pleasure Activism, Adrienne Maree Brown
Eiko Otake, A Body in Places (Fukushima)
Heather Davis, “queer futurity of plastic”
From Trinity to Trinity, Kyoko Hayashi
Deborah Hay, My Body the Buddhist
Making Dances That Matter, Anna Halprin
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L I S T E N
We started this season reflecting on the house of the goddess, and now we end where we began — carrying water medicine and the wisdom of Her with us into the summer sun.