Jim Fouratt: CulturalInstigator: 2014

Sunday, March 9, 2014

SXSW 2914 : BORN TO FLY world premier post screening Q&A with director Catherine Gund and subject Elizabeth STREB

SXSW Left Tilda Swinton's public conversation (oh no you think...but I have had the same conversation with her privately) to go see the world premier of Catherine Gund's BORN TO FLYthe Elizabeth STREB documentary Both women, director Gund and choreographer-provocateur Streb have each had the courage to take flight. Gund best know for her kid-centric healthy food and how to cook it documentary A PLATE AT THE TABLE takes a wild leap forward and documents the body challenging feats of dance that signify STREB company physical discipline, BORN TO FLY is a masterful example of complicated story telling, All I can say is WOW.. and how did they do THAT? This live action rel time footage has none of the new tricks of simulation Hollywood Action Hero flicks have . What you see is actually happening.

Gund shot some amazing STRB dances including the endorphin shower of doing and watching STEB walk down the sleek, slippery totally glass top to bottom of the London City Hall during the London Olympics in 2012 ... BORN TO FLY is lyrical with out being sentimental.The arch of film is letting go of fear ...... to fly. Going beyond the limits fear resticts imagination and physical accomplishment,This is dance at it most muscular poetic beauty (Film Forum in Sept)

Watch the post screening world premier

Praxis, my dear, is the only real way to succeed in the culture war.

Praxis, my dear, is the only real way to succeed in the culture war.
Yes indeed there is a culture war going .. but you know that if you have arrived here. We suggest that you put theory into practice by taking virtual you and virtual ideas into the reality of real live physical and cognitive action.

MEANING: get up and out of your chair and do something physical in real time. OCCUPY YOUR BODY. Be physical.

The fuel is love, compassion and curiosity. Anger is a result of the repression of fear and distances one from compassionate change ... do the Che Che cha cha cha .. or if you prefer the Stiegler tango! or the Shulamith Firestone death metal raga!

PRAXIS is the action of putting into practice the thoughts, theories and desires running through your bio-magnetic, nerve sensitive self. Reality propelled by the friction of input/output.

Damn it, it should be fun !

I will share with you my interaction in the real world and the theoretical world and invite you to do the same.

Politics is an everyday affair. Politics is how we live our lives Every action or non-action we do is a political act. Culture is the expression of desire in public interactive way.

So jump in please.

Join me in participating in life. Making change starts with self and ripples out. Pop culture is where I live ..not in some isolated, white tower, postmodern, distancing intellectual thought or theory. Theory in practice is praxis . It used to be called dialectics .. still a good word even if dressed up in new theory drag.

Serious fun has it consequences including changing the status quo.

We are all at the same life party. Find the door you can come through to make PRAXIS a full time act of creativity .

jim fouratt