Table Of Content“speaking about dance is like
ailing Jello te the wall “
~ MERCE CUNNINGHAM ,
3, apocrypha |
= KENOER
THE JELL-©
A MANIFESTO FOR DANCE
CRITICISM , AMONG
OTHER THINGS
3s
BY KATE PUROUM
TO AR FOR THE
INTRODUCTION ,
ED FoR THE COMPANY,
AND Ck FOR AVOIDING
Mu Pesky LEFT EL Bow.
THBbLE * CONTENTS
a eS
PROLOGUE
COLLAGE #4
SECTION A
SECTION
SECTION TL
COWAGE #2.
LEARN LEARN Ne LEAENING ON A: CRITIC AS THINKE
f ppereiigemere 9TION A CRITIC AS THINKER
Mee FIRST? SOME MATH
aN Daniel Mendelsohn pasits that: |
KNOWLEDGE +-TAST E-<
MEANING FUL JUDGMENT
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eee both what iy contained sy Ong
Writing, and whet is absent From
tit is an attempt
; , Pr, Palrstaakciy
and |ntinexte CFP eug » thrust »
into the Public forum) to whder-
Stand a work from” one's ows
“sonal jens while
PYSonal jens w Paying as
much aS Possible to
Where lens is positiined
and how ft bands or retract
the essence of a work
It ~ being critica ~ need not
cortaiin ~ explicit Judgmunt, though
we are all always, all-ways, ~
Judging. CAS Menkelsohn himself
points “gut , "the word critic comes
From the " @reck word for yndge,")
But. IS tt pot chough for hs
equation fo singly cesalt in
MEANING?
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| SECTION ID: cRITic as aerit
MY HEAD OF ALL THOUGHT
MAKE A WORK LEG/GLg? CPASTED TET BY CLAUDIA LA Roce)
( FEEL A BURNING
OESIRE To PRODUCE
CRITICISM THAT INSTEAD
COMMUNI CATES — Bur
DOES Not SEEK TO
SOLVE - ELUSIVENESS.
ee a
IN SHORT: writing antesm =
sucroder He “TELL-9. You
can Never nail rt tothe wal/
in a Way that Will be arowt-
ectuvally Sound. Let tt dribble to
he ~fldov instead. Moye fun :)
“she liked the place empty,” Ns. Didion writes.
EMPTY AS 1 WISH MY MIND COULD BE. EMPTY
THE WAY A THEATER 5, BEFORE
The roar of the crowd:
EERIE / cHEeERY (/AM A
SUCKER FOR A Good GHoSTLI CHT)
AND THANK GoD Foe. JOAN DiDiow,
WHO UNDERSTANOS THE PIT) Fue
AND PAINFUL WAYS MY HEART IS
BEING DRAGGED 7? PIECES BY
THE ENDLESS EXPANSE OF CouNlTey
THAT SEPARA TES NEW York AND
CALIFORNIA AMO THE FEELING
THAT THERE WILL NEVER BE
SILENCE IN THE SPACE BEHIND
+ _MY EYES BECAUSE oF a
POEM (2): | WRITE To Emery
S8ure Buse suz2> imperys ro
CATALOGUE AND UARACTERIZE AND
(Qvr NTS words THE ABiowUTELY
SEASELESS CACOPRONYCEMULATED ON
THIS VERY PAGE) WHICH HAS I7s ORIGIN
POINT IN MY Nois¥ CROWOED BRAIN.
Dio_1_TUst comprare MYSELF Fo
YAN Di piow.,.2
People make it
impossible for you
to like them
Bur ART, oN THE
OTHER HaNO, MAKES
ITSELF AutomaAticauy
ENDEARING (To Me,
[At LEAST) OW THE VERY BASE THAT IT
LS, IN FACT, AT. IN A OIFFERENT TIME,
[WHEN | WAS STI CAUGHT UP WITH THE
NOTION OF GRITICISM AS BEING AgouT
SHOULON'TS AMO SHouLDs » UES AND
OSUMES, | THOUGHT OF THB CNAivE?) zoy
a
AS _A WEAKNESS, BUT THERE ARE No
RULES, ANO 1 HAVE COME To FINO
| SOLACE IN WEIRD, GREAT, B16, DEEP,
SPIRAL- CUT THINEING ABOUT aQz,
CTHERE 1s soy yn ittsting it THepe
1S JOY To BE FOUND IN EVERYTHING ;
HUNT IT DowN Dowsenr4.)
Persowauy, | HAVE NEVER FELT
THAT
| FEEL SAFE -SWAOLER, EYEN ~
IN SPACES oF ACADEMIC
THOMeuT. | Love PeopLe
WHO disappear, MYMBLIN 6,
The Acadeny Has It In For Me
//
INTO THEIR UMMTELUI 61@cE, MULTI - eLAUsE
SENTENCES BECAUSE WHERE ELSE A
1 SUPPOSED To PUT ALL oF HE SHIT
THAT 1S We qheee IN MY BAIN |
PLAYING BUMPER CARS?! IT ALL_HAS
To _©° SOMEWHERE. If WAS ONLY
RELATIVELY REceNTLY THAT, AETEe A
UFE TIME of BEING AWRITA,
is
| _REALIZEO THAT | Was one.
What does it mean to say you will become a writer?
What does it mean to say you
future rushing up to and then passing you
WHAT Does IT MEAN
TO WRITE Now,
Rlont Now, 1M A
TIME whe ot
‘There are fires on
the horizon
INA TIME Wiebe
THE OWLY ANSWER | CAN EVEN QEOIN
Te P0S'T 15, ANDO 1 Oo Hope pou'ee
FORGIVE ME for BoRAowIMG A PHRASE, &
There is no real med:
icine there is ofly art
How about that?
A
AI,
OR AT
OK te LEAST 11
toy ee SHOULD BE.
