{"id":806,"date":"2016-10-18T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T09:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/log\/?p=806"},"modified":"2016-10-18T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T09:56:56","slug":"20161018-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/20161018-2\/","title":{"rendered":"20161018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning about choreographer J\u00e9r\u00f4me Bel after Pilvi&#8217;s recommendation (The Kettlebell Choreography I guided for her at NPTurku entitled me to call myself a choreographer, so I have to learn the ropes). &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2011\/nov\/22\/step-guide-dance-jerome-bel\">Step-by-step guide to dance: JB<\/a>&#8221; on&nbsp;the Guardian gives&nbsp;an overview of his practice and in a lecture &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Fbf8LUlm-1U\">About &#8216;The Last Performance&#8217; (1998) 1-4<\/a>&#8221; the artist discusses the development of his &#8220;The Last Performance&#8221; piece from 1998 in detail. The themes of sampling and recycling as a basis of artistic production (or un-production) are appealing and I comply with his thinking. In an&nbsp;other short video were he talks about his practice &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/21118691\">Rehearsal Matters interview with JB<\/a>&#8221; he comes off as a rigid and flamboyant artist persona. I don&#8217;t agree with his definition of improvisation being &#8220;an attempt to free oneself&#8221;. I&#8217;ve always seen improvisation as a tool to illustrate the confinements we forced to comply with: Improvisation is about articulating confinements and vocalising the ideological positions sites\/situations encapsulate us into. Trough improvisation we can see the boundaries of the working body. His rigid view on improvisation is in alignment with conservative and craft orientated mindsets&nbsp;of orthodox-artist, who search&nbsp;for a canonised and mystical order trough&nbsp;styles and beats (I&#8217;ve come to understand that Hip-Hop is a conservative cultural movement. Sampling is a form of prayer).<\/p>\n<p>Copying what others have done can be&nbsp;the most&nbsp;effective way to make something new. #\u0950<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning about choreographer J\u00e9r\u00f4me Bel after Pilvi&#8217;s recommendation (The Kettlebell Choreography I guided for her at NPTurku entitled me to call myself a choreographer, so I have to learn the ropes). &#8220;Step-by-step guide to dance: JB&#8221; on&nbsp;the Guardian gives&nbsp;an overview of his practice and in a lecture &#8220;About &#8216;The Last Performance&#8217; (1998) 1-4&#8221; the artist &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/20161018-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;20161018&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22,184,185,156,102,28],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-log","tag-22","tag-jerome-bel","tag-kettlebell","tag-new-performance-turku","tag-pilvi-porkola","tag-sampler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eero.storijapan.net\/docfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}