Whenever I write a novel I’m reminded of the essential hubris of criticism. When I write criticism I’m in such a protected position: here are my arguments, here are my blessed opinions, here is my textual evidence, here my rhetorical flourish. One feels very pleased with oneself. Fiction has none of these defences. You are just a fool with a keyboard. It’s much harder. More frightening.
- Zadie Smith
dance : ephemeral forever
dance : response
dance : Listen
dance : being ( Open )
dance : bodies ( yours,
mine ) new heights; breaking down
dance : strength ( fragility )
dance : code
dance : sight
I don't mind criticism a bit — the critics are always wrong … but they are always right in the sense that they make one re-examine one’s artistic conscience.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
is it rare
to find
a dancer
willing to lie ?
Authenticity & all that
so essential to the dancing body.
art
also
is a precipice
an impossible position
between the climb
& the chasm
between Work
& sublime fear
with what
have-to
have you
to unfurl
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