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November 8, 2005
TT: Rerun
November 2003:On the other hand, here's a thought experiment: try to imagine a ballet like George Balanchine's The Four Temperaments ‘performed' on a computer screen by a ‘company' of articulated stick figures. All the movements, which are the essence of the dance, would be visible--but the viewer would experience them as a three-dimensional geometrical theorem, not an interaction between...well, souls. So long as we are on this earth, there can be no souls without bodies. That's one of the reasons why I love ballet (it's the ‘word' made as flesh), and why synthesizers will never replace live orchestras....
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Posted November 8, 2005 12:03 PM
