Comments on: Some questions for Miguel Gutierrez about Last Meadow, collaboration and Portland’s clean air http://urbanhonking.com/pica/2009/09/01/some_questions_for_miguel_guti/ Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:29:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: Seth Nehil http://urbanhonking.com/pica/2009/09/01/some_questions_for_miguel_guti/#comment-812 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:22:45 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/pica/2009/09/01/some_questions_for_miguel_guti/#comment-812 I love what Miguel says about the elusive discourse of dance. It seems that dancers, poets and experimental musicians are expected to know about and take part in visual arts dialog (and to read those “super fancy books”) but it doesn’t often go the other direction. Why have the arts become so seemingly specialized? What happened to the time when it was ok for Rauschenberg to be a choreographer? Why are people intimidated by abstraction in dance and music, and comfortable with it in painting and sculpture?
It seems to me that many of the same pleasures apply. Lately I watch dance in terms of music and listen to music in terms of dance. I relate to Miguel’s feeling of spongelife – I want to know about it all!

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