Niel Nisbet of Article 19 gives us a preview of what I would rush to see if it were not across the pond. Click on the link to see what he posted a couple of days ago on Article 19, one of the best dance websites in the world -- these guys pull out all the technology stops to support dance in Europe!

Simon Fildes sent an email to me inside realneo pointing out that he and Katrina McPherson have posted a new video at LeftLuggage. After you click the link to check out the video, click on move.org.uk. There are four videos that represent the pair's ongoing videodance research.

Who knows something about this? EPAs don't see dross in landfill as hazardous

The Joyce Foundation has given a $5 million grant to begin cleanup of the Maumee River. Toady's article in the PD begins What happens in Northwest Ohio doesn't stay in Northwest Ohio. One of the things that will happen as part of this effort to reduce run off from agricultural land in Northwest Ohio is the planting of trees. “Working with farmers to plant trees and vegetation along the Tiffin and Blanchard rivers to restore wetlands and create a continuous buffer; and to test new drainage ditches to reduce sediment." This article extols the opportunities for industrial Northwest Ohio. But at one time this area was home to the Black Swamp.

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Maybe we should see if we could make a buck (or more likely a statement) selling Cuyahoga River cocktails or Lake Erie highballs. If the idea is that enough alcohol will eliminate the need to address our water quality issues, then the folks who have the money to address these issues ought to be happy to swill away on these high powered drinks.  Add enough absinthe and sugar to some Cuyahoga River water and you've got a drink that we might call the Ohio Obliterator. Drink this and forget the Clean Water Act ever happened...

Today in the PD, you can read about what we knew was coming in the news from NEORSD.

My hero, the man whose ideas expanded my own is interviewed here about his life and work. I had the opportunity to work with one of his very first dancers, Albert Reid when I was a 15 year old bunhead at a summer ballet school in Saratoga, NY. Needless to say, it changed my life and the course of my life’s work and world view.  So now that I have ended my career as artistic director of a modern dance repertory company here in Northeast Ohio, I, like Merce, am still dancing and still seeing dance even though I may not be entering theaters to do so as often as before. Now for example I head out for the dance of dog walking. Today, the lighting design is especially brilliant.

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Norm,
If you're in Toronto October 6-9 check out the mini home at the International Home and Garden Show. MiniHomage   Here’s the history: http://sustain.ca/  This is an affordable way for young professionals to stick it to the city. Buy the cheap lot and live there with the elements and no utility bills. When you’ve had enough of the BS polotics, just roll, dude. They’re lovely in the pics. I can imagine a few of them sitting lightly along the bluffs looking so moderne.

Welcome to new realneo member Sarah Taylor who has this brilliant idea. I am posting this for her today, but we look forward to her future posts as her newfound tech experince grows. Sarah says:

You think SAFMOD’s cool? Check out this guy who actually pays homage to the master of multimedia dance construction. Uh, that would be the late Alwin Nikolais who pioneered this stuff when he returned from serving in WWII.

Philippe Decouflé

(1961- )

http://www.artsalive.ca/en/dan/mediatheque/videos/videosDetails.asp?mediaID=487
Makes me wanna go see this... the netherlands are pretty far though...
This Canadian site is pretty deep if you are interested in watching dance video shorts.

This article about Hyacinth Lofts from the NYTimes sent to me by my sister who lives in New Hampshire and is jealous of the urbanity of my inner ring suburban walkable neighborhood. I missed it. She caught it. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/realestate/10nati.html?_r=2&oref=login&oref=slogin

I found this quote. It is one of my favorites. I wanted to give Norm a chance to remember it or hear it for the first time. It is from the NOVA Convention. You might have been a teen then, Norm.

"If we see the earth as a spaceship and go further to invoke the comparison of a lifeboat, it is of course of vital concern to everybody on the boat if the crew or the passengers start polluting their supply of food and water, distributing supplies on a grossly inequitable basis, knocking holes in the bottom of the boat, or worst of all trying to blow the boat out from under us." William Burroughs

McDonald's back sliding!?!
Yep! Even though they adjusted their menu after the Supersize Me movie, they have slid back this summer by offering toy Hummers to children in Happy Meals. Read it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/10/business/media/10adco.html?_r=1&oref=s...

I just had to share this. It is so cool (to me anyway)...

http://www.martinbonadeo.com.ar/23_chocloen.html

This discovery follows this one made earlier this year:

SORRY... This videodance was removed now that the filmmaker's DVD is for sale. Nice for the 130 of you who were able to view it...
here's what the site says "We have now removed thefree quicktime downloads of'Moment' and There's Something You Should Know
Katrina McPherson FIVE VIDEO DANCES featuring Pace, Sense 8, Moment, The Truth, There's Something You Should Know. Price 25.50 GB pounds makingvideodance.com.

My 18 year old, who yesterday learned to make a rain barrel, today turned me on to what one of his favorite band's is doing to lend a hand to the climate change awareness.
http://www.dmband.com/news/view/0c7d1589d4993d6f6263d71c8d1f9f5d The band is buying energy credits for all CO2 emissions for the band's touring activities since 1991. He's not the only corporation who is partnering with these guys.

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July 27, 2006

In addition to the 52 Weeks 52 Works Desk Calendar, all selected artists will have the opportunity to show their work this January at The Pop Shop Gallery!!!

If you are an artist living and working in Northeast Ohio and you’d like your artwork to be included in 52 Weeks 52 Works, ACT NOW!  In addition to your artwork being included in the 2007 AGC desk calendar 52 weeks 52 works, all artists who are selected will also have the opportunity to show their work at the 52 Weeks 52 Works Artist Art Show sponsored by The Pop Shop Gallery this January! I kindly ask that you please forward and/or distribute this information to any artist(s) you think might be interested in this creative opportunity.

Visit LeftLuggage and view the dances there under "Videodances.tv". Click on the link for "Moment".

The movement is reminiscent of works I loved coaching when I directed The Repertory Project. The two bodies slip and slide through space carving it out and carving out and defining a relationship as they go. Is it obvious? No, but then neither is life.

 With the Ingenuity Fest coming up, I thought we could warm up with this easy to understand video dance by Mimi Garrard. We'll head into the more obsure later.