not an oxymoron
Posted in The Path, witness dance on Oct 26th, 2009
Several of you have asked about my guest teaching at Princeton. My task was to present a taste of Sufism within the context of Dance and the Sacred. The professor, the illustrious Ze’eva Cohen, had, as preparation, given the students (but not me) a paper discussing the Whirling Dervishes. The over-arcing inquiry for the course [...]
Posted in Of Core Knowing on Oct 26th, 2009
I googled a friend’s avatar while the BBC World News, playing as a the soundtrack in the background, related yet another African genocidal mutilation story, and I had an odd rush of living in a performance art piece — two disembodied sources, one audio and one computer screen, focused on images and bodies. Meanwhile I [...]
Posted in The Path on Oct 13th, 2009
Is the word ‘genius’ overused? Is it real? What makes a genius? This was the topic on WNYC’s Soundcheck a little while back with guest, Daniel Coyle , author of The Talent Code. Coyle studied gifted musicians and places with concentrations of geniuses or highly accomplished musicians. Coyle brings up Malcolm Gladwells’ 10,000 Hours Rule. [...]
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