From d4aa90a9c7fd744188d4344f71c354c5679c5753 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tamsin woo Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:35:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] tamsin: ballet --- users/tamsin/gemlog/2024/03-24.gmi | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/users/tamsin/gemlog/2024/03-24.gmi b/users/tamsin/gemlog/2024/03-24.gmi index b87744b..cc40371 100644 --- a/users/tamsin/gemlog/2024/03-24.gmi +++ b/users/tamsin/gemlog/2024/03-24.gmi @@ -3,7 +3,12 @@ ## 2024-03-24 => https://youtu.be/6Jk6E9E1CN0 Philip Glass - Etude No. 2 +=> https://www.artic.edu/artworks/109439/america-windows America Windows | The Art Institute of Chicago -i was in Seattle this past weekend where i had a date to take a girl to the ballet (PNB; One Thousand Pieces). both the ballet and the girl were breathtaking. +i was in Seattle this weekend where i had a date to take a girl to the ballet (PNB; One Thousand Pieces). both the ballet and the girl were breathtaking. + +the highlight of One Thousand Pieces was the climax of the first half, when columns of mist fall behind the dancers. the water on the stage in this part of the performance both expands and restricts movements. the slick surface forces restraint. bodies enter controlled slides where they would otherwise stop abrputly. light is dispersed by the cascading mist and water droplets stream from the performers, throwing long symmetries across the stage. + +for the whole time i've known her my date has pursued her transition with an intensity i can't help but admire. i rarely see her not healing from one or more surgeries, laser sessions, tattoos---as an exercise of bodily autonomy, tattoos can be a trans technique. my own pace is more patient. my capacity is tempered by my focus on motherhood, which offers its own forms of intensity. => .. 🏠 tamsin's gemlog