A Letter to Dance, by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker | News | Rosas

As part of my thesis research I’ve been thinking (very loosely) about this problem.

How do you organize the multitude. What’s the common directionality of the crowd. I liked the distinction of people waiting for the subway vs something with agency and intention.

Some questions that popped into my mind were -

• What causes a crowd to start having collective agency?
• Do they want to be able to participate in a common activity?

I think that people will generally do as they’re told and will follow to a specific place. There might be stragglers but I believe for the most part - everyone complies.

The movements that are conscious allow for reflection of those movements. Do we really think much about the movements without agency in the past. Do we think about the subway ride we had or the walk over to grab lunch from chipotle. I think the “choreography's” in our lives are harder to truly nail down but to me its the journey of the movement and if the movements are memorable in some way. The abstractness of the dance and