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Tractor Square Dancing

Probably the best tractor square dancing you'll see this year.
An Institutional Shortcoming of the US Housing Market

I was surprised to learn that a disproportionate number of three level houses in Boston are being foreclosed and left to decay instead of being converted into rental apartments.
Surfing Scheveningen Style

Even though there are hardly any good waves, not even on a good day, surfing is popular in The Hague.

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Performances

I'm currently working on a new mixed program with some short and some longer pieces. The working title is Wozu Tanz in dürftiger Zeit? (Why dance in desolate times?), which is indeed a reference to Martin Heidegger. I like to keep myself open to radical departures from whatever else I am working on at any moment.

As a matter of fact, when you replace poets by dancers or dance the essay by Heidegger still makes sense. Indeed, I'd like to argue that where Hölderlin speaks of poets following in the trail of Dionysos one should read dancers and singers. But that's another story. Check out some of the rehearsal footage and come see the show. It's going to be very good.

Versuch über die Sprache
Concept & Choreography: Ivar Hagendoorn
Dancers: Avatâra Ayuso, Camille Revol
Music: John Zorn

Excerpts from the Book of Angels
Concept & Choreography: Ivar Hagendoorn
Dancers: Avatâra Ayuso, Camille Revol
Music: John Zorn

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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". More information in the Call for Papers.

Hagendoorn, IG. Dance, Language and the Brain (forthcoming). 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. Dance, Choreography and the Brain, in: Melcher, D. and Bacci, F. [eds.], Art and the Senses. Oxford University Press, 2009 (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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Talks

Cointegration and Correlation in Dance, Music and the Brain. At the symposium Zeitkunst. Rhythmus und Metrum in interdisziplinärer Perspektive. Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld, Germany 2-3 November 2009.

Reading

Richard Dawkins: The Ancestor's Tale

Just finished

John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men

W.G. Sebald: Austerlitz

Bruno Munari: Design as Art

Misha Glenny: McMafia. Seriously Organized Crime

Richard Dowden: Africa. Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

David Foster Wallace: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

All books since 2005

Listening

I just came across the new Kronos Quartet album Floodplain and after listening to it only once I'm already hooked. It features music from the world's great floodplains, the Nile, the Ganges, the Danube in the form of original arrangements of traditional music and newly commissioned pieces.

Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest. Another contender for album of the year.

Hot on the heels of last year's Workout Holiday comes Fits, the new album by White Denim. It is just as good.

Patrick Watson: Wooden Arms. Dreamy, theatrical, piano, percussion songs. Different and special.

My source for new music (streaming only). Click on the bottom line for no bugger off and get me to the site (my free translation) on the pop-up window asking if you want to answer a few questions.