// Body Book Club //

Velocity Dance Center & Studio Current invite you to BBC (Body Book Club) a monthly reading club that engages discussion of non-fiction work about the body, movement, critical theory, dance and embodiment.  This will be a unique reading opportunity with complex texts that might deeply affect us as makers of dance & performance, and keep us up to date with experimental and innovative ideas from all over the world and other times in history.

We came up with this approach:

1.  Read an essay or text before meeting (not more then 50 pages)
2.  Begin the “meeting-time” with open movement (5 min)
3.  Reflective writing aimed at generating questions for discussion (5 min)
4.  Discussion of the text, that is rigorous and applicable to our practices, research, and aesthetic development as artists of the body. (40 min)
5.  A closing writing time (10 min)

Please join us as we embark upon this new adventure.

If you would like to be on the BBC mailing list, email Mary Margaret at speakeasy@velocitydancecenter.org

BBC Pilot Series Schedule:

•  BBC #3:    NEW FORMAT!!

Part I: Wednesday February 8, 7-9:30p  Reading/Discussion at Bluebird Cafe
Part II: Friday, February 10, 12:30-2:00p Movement/Writing at Velocity

Text: “Exhaustion and Exuberance, Ways to Defy the Pressures to Perform,” by Jan Verwoert

Part I

Join us on Wednesday, February 8th, from 7-9:30p at Bluebird Cafe (12o5 E. Pine– not far from Velocity) for a reading of the text.  We will take turns reading aloud (or not, if that’s your preference) and taking pause to discuss when the occasion arises.  We’ve decided to blend the reading and discussion together and hope it enrich the experience. (Vanessa and I have discovered that this is how we prefer to “read” theory!  Hear the words from others’ mouths, from your own, and discuss with peers immediately. So gratifying!)

Part II

We will gather on Friday, February 10th from 12:30-2:00p at Steward Studio (VDC), for a session of writing and movement in relation to the text and our reading.  This will give us time to delve further into the act of movement investigation around a text.

You may join for both or just one of our meetings, however, take note that you will need to read on your own if you come to the moving and writing meeting but not the reading session.

Looking forward!

Mary Margaret & Vanessa

•  BBC #2:    Monday, January 16, 12:30-2:00p

Theme: looking, seeing, and the Image

• BBC #1:    Friday, December 16, 12:30-2:00pm 

Text:  “Against Interpretation” by Susan Sontag (1964)
http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/sontag-againstinterpretation.html