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At 5:29 PM -0800 3/18/03, JAMES FOWLER, III wrote: >i already hate both performance art and modern dance! There is good and bad performance art and there is good and bad dance, just like any other art form (there is even good and bad looping!). Performance art is a very broad field of art practice. When someone claims to hate performance art, does this mean he/she is familiar with (and hates) Vito Acconci AND Rachel Rosenthal AND Laurie Anderson AND Tim Miller AND Laurie Anderson AND Chris Burden AND Bob and Bob AND Eleanor Antin AND Meredith Monk AND Daryl Sapien AND Barbara Smith AND the Kipper Kids AND Teh-Ching Hsieh AND Linda Montana AND Marina Abramovic AND Sasha Higbie AND Allan Kaprow AND The Art Guys AND John Fleck AND Diamanda Galas AND Guillermo Gomez-Pena AND Annie Sprinkle AND Stelarc AND Survival Research Labs AND Hanna Wilke... And what about "modern dance"? Does this include ONLY Martha Graham and her antecedents (such as Isadora Duncan and Mary Wigman) and her emulators (whom I don't much care for myself, so I don't offer examples) or does it also include the post-modern dance artists who were reacting AGAINST modern dance? What about the Judson Group, for instance (Yvonne Rainer, Simone Forti, Steve Paxton, Trisha Brown, et al.)? What about contemporary dance theater such as that presented at DTW? What about Merce Cunningam? Or interactive media artists such as Troika Ranch or CASSIEL? -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com