Boris Willis Moves: Tryst

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Tryst

Kelly and I were hanging out at Tryst when she dared me to get up and dance to "Oh Sherrie" which I did to great applause from the patrons. As the song ended she jumped into my arms and I swung her around and we sat down and laughed about our pre-futurist performance. Soon after this guy gets up and boogies down. Kelly says to me, "you have to get him on tape for danceaday, so I did.

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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.