Jim Fouratt: CulturalInstigator: OPERA IS THE NEW BLACK Doubt in HD Trailer

Monday, January 9, 2017

OPERA IS THE NEW BLACK Doubt in HD Trailer

The word Opera becomes like the word curator has been kidnapped by jobless Ph.D. candidates and has become devalued by their use of it to cover a mess of work. BUT but it is amazing to actually learn that contemporary musicians are border crossing and seeding and pruning new work that justifies the description OPERA... I think of Roddy Bottum (Imperial Teen, Faith No more ) and the preview of an opera he is working that was done as part of two nights of emerging opera composers at Roulette last year. I think of the young composers like Nick Hallett seeded by Meredith Monk and Philip Glass. I will at length in a separate post discuss contemporary opera in depth, But I wanted you to get a taste of work that you may be familiar with as an award-winning play and film: DOUBT: here is an excerpt: (remember heightened musical spectacle)

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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