I lurched through some of the Fred Wolf video but didn't get to the much discussed dance number yet. The discussion reminds me of when Carlos Castaneda of Yaqui Mexican fame showed up teaching Tensegrity as a kind of calisthenics, very Richard Simmons (it seemed to some viewers). Kenneth Snelson wasn't wild about this apparent dilution of the purity of meaning, but then the waters were already muddy by then.
I might flip it around and give to any discipline the challenge of figuring out what its dance forms would be. Those saying "but we don't HAVE to dance" are reminded by the anthropology department that body movement vocabularies are a mandatory part of a subculture, so it's not a matter of "if" just "what". How do you walk and talk if you study wu li particles all day.
In Python Nation (a hangout), I invented a dance designed to celebrate the apocalypse, a play on Y2K and 2012 (Mayan Y2K) and py3K, the latter being Guido's planned apocalyptic breaking of backward compatibility within Python 2.x (we're talking computer language here **).
"I'm spoofing the apocalyptic mindset, ala Y2K, suggesting we write a PEP for a new snake dance called The Writhe. I suppose this is one of those "you had to be there" jokes. My audience seemed receptive. Watch YouTube for examples."
re "weird dance" etc.
I might flip it around and give to any discipline the challenge of figuring out what its dance forms would be. Those saying "but we don't HAVE to dance" are reminded by the anthropology department that body movement vocabularies are a mandatory part of a subculture, so it's not a matter of "if" just "what". How do you walk and talk if you study wu li particles all day.
In Python Nation (a hangout), I invented a dance designed to celebrate the apocalypse, a play on Y2K and 2012 (Mayan Y2K) and py3K, the latter being Guido's planned apocalyptic breaking of backward compatibility within Python 2.x (we're talking computer language here **).
"I'm spoofing the apocalyptic mindset, ala Y2K, suggesting we write a PEP for a new snake dance called The Writhe. I suppose this is one of those "you had to be there" jokes. My audience seemed receptive. Watch YouTube for examples."
http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2008/10/ppug-20081014.html
Kirby
** http://rigaux.org/language-study/diagram.html (choose "messy full" for more geography)