Pleasure + Staying with the Trouble / Michael J Morris home—body podcast

In this episode, Michael J Morris and I conjure up the dancestors for wisdom and body magic.

We discuss
How necessary joy + pleasure are to “stay with the trouble”Re-imagining the indirectness of our survival and primal needsThe false binary of survival + pleasureThe body as the altar + container for magicButoh’s approach to the body and dance, lineage and revolutionDance as a way to imagine other ways of being in a bodyBeing “with” difficulty and toxicityPracticing empathetic embodiment and compassionExploring ordinary movement as dance Practicing the aspirationalAuthentic movement as a desire-based practiceDesire + pleasure as emergent and nonlinearSHOW NOTES

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Pina, documentary / Alkistis Demech / Scarlet Imprint / The Brazen Vessel
/Staying with the Trouble, Donna Haraway /Pleasure Activism, Adrienne Maree Brown
/Alexis Pauline Gumbs /Audre Lorde /Phyllis Curott /Butoh /Yoshito Ohno /Kazuo Ohno
/Tatsumi Hijikata /Eiko Otake, A Body in Places (Fukushima) /Heather Davis, “queer futurity of plastic” /From Trinity to Trinity, Kyoko Hayashi /Deborah Hay, My Body the Buddhist
/Making Dances That Matter, Anna Halprin /Judson Dance Theater /
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