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The new show was a BIG success. I am very happy with all three pieces. The video for the second performance of Dog Shelter is now online. I've also uploaded a video of the second performance of Morning Light. A recording of the first performance of Une Pensée Ininterrompue is now also online! I'll be posting more excerpts soon.

The new pieces explore dance as a form of thinking and seek to answer the question "Wozu Tanz in dürftiger Zeit?" (Why dance in a desolate time?). They were inspired by my readings of Alain Finkielkraut, Jacques Rancière and David Foster Wallace. Dance is a part of society and as likely to be in the vanguard of and to lag behind social developments and transformations. The overall message of the new pieces is one of optimism and hope. Rather than holding up a mirror to society it explores different perspectives that permit one to move beyond oneself. The new work speaks of a belief in the power of art and the imagination. The nuances of life are not contained in life itself, but are given to us by art.

Enjoy some excerpts from the first rehearsals and come and see the show. It's going to be very good.

Dog Shelter
Concept & Choreography: Ivar Hagendoorn
Dancer: Irene Cortina González
Music: TBA

Une Pensée Ininterrompue
Concept & Choreography: Ivar Hagendoorn
Dancer: Irene Cortina González
Music: Thierry Blondeau

Morning Light
Concept & Choreography: Ivar Hagendoorn
Dancer: Irene Cortina González
Music: Stuart Dempster

Also check out some excerpts from Field Study No.1 a new dance installation piece, which we did last year.

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Articles

I'm Guest-editor for a Special Issue of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences on "Dance and Cognitive Science". The deadline for submitting papers has now passed. Publication is scheduled for fall 2010. The Call for Papers will tell you more about what to expect. I will post more information when available.

I have various papers under review right now. More later!

Hagendoorn, IG. (2010). Dance, Language and the Brain. International Journal of Art and Technology, 3 (2/3), 221-234. This paper continues the dance, x and the brain theme. In this paper I take a systematic look at dance, language and the brain.

Hagendoorn, IG. (2010). Dance, Choreography and the Brain. In: Melcher, D. and Bacci, F. [eds.], Art and the Senses. Oxford University Press, pp. 499-514. (forthcoming). An up-to-date overview of my research.

Hagendoorn, IG. Ontsnappen aan de armoede. De Academische Boekengids 71, 2008 (In Dutch). Supplementary material. My review of Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms; Dani Rodrik: One Economics. Many Recipes; and Paul Collier: The Bottom Billion.

Hagendoorn, IG. Can Dance Be Disgusting or Is It Forever Doomed to Aestheticism? Culture Teatrali 16, Primavera 2007, pp. 161-166 (published: November 2008). To find out the answer you will have to read the article. Feel free to disagree. Some further thoughts.

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Reading

Dave Eggers: Zeitoun

Alan Beattie: False Economy. A surprising economic history of the world

Just finished

Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Yasmina Khadra: L'attentat

Bret Easton Ellis: Imperial Bedrooms

Catherine Malabou: La Chambre du Milieu. De Hegel aux Neurosciences

Alain Finkielkraut: Un coeur intelligent

All books since 2005

Listening

DeepChord Presents Echospace: Liumin. Immersive white noise techno. Loving it. The perfect soundtrack to some of my urban photography.

Big Boi: Sir Lucious Left Foot... The Son of Chico Dusty. Excellent solo album by one half of Outkast.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: Before Today. One of the albums everybody is talking about and I am listening to.

Also listening to Claude Vivier and J.S. Bach (as always).

Someone gave me what seems like almost the entire Jonathan Harvey back catalogue whose work I discovered last year through BBC Radio 3. More than 9 hours of new music and I've now listened to everything at least once. Love the cello music.

My source for new music. Streaming only, but an excellent way to quickly sample new releases.

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