Boris Willis Moves: Museums

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Museums

Today I went to the National Portrait Gallery and saw some works about dancers and decided to do some dancing of my own. There was a photo of Mikhail Baryshnikov and a painting of Martha Graham by Paul Meltsner and Merce Cunningham was in a video art piece by Nam June Paik. I love Paik's work so I danced with Megatron/Matrix 1995 at the National Museum of American Art.

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Pre-Futurist Dance Manifesto

The world of the past is no more and the world of the future will never arrive. There is only now and how you decide to respond in the now.

Postmodernism has past.

We believe in the intelligence of the body, the intelligence of the mind and that the two are impossible to separate.

Dance is the result of the physicalized mind and the verbose body and we reject putting the cart of scholarship and language before the horse of dance.

Performance happens now, it does not have to secure funding, book a theater or advertise in newspapers. It does not need rehearsal space. It does not need a concept. It does not need to last for more than a second. It does not need to be ephemeral. It does not need flowy pants, tight tops or bare feet. It does not need previews, reviews or even to be seen at all.

We reject the term modern dance, we make art through movement. We dance, we make videos, we make paintings, we make video games, we write, we sculpt, we draw, we act, we sound and we move. We make art. We are artists.

We can change the world.