http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2007/11/18/jerome-bel-thinking/ Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:31:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2007/11/18/jerome-bel-thinking/#comment-19348 Dance Theater Workshop » Blog Archive » Jerome Bel - People are still talking about it Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:08:42 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2007/11/18/jerome-bel-thinking/#comment-19348 [...] posts include: Jerome Bel: still thinking by Sally Rousse The Republic of Jerome Bel by Aynsley Vandenbroucke [...] […] posts include: Jerome Bel: still thinking by Sally Rousse The Republic of Jerome Bel by Aynsley Vandenbroucke […]

]]> http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2007/11/18/jerome-bel-thinking/#comment-17474 Melissa Birch Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:15:02 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2007/11/18/jerome-bel-thinking/#comment-17474 "I want to disappoint you", Bel said. 'Ninety-five percent of the shows you pay to see are terrible', he said. Perhaps Bel is simply asserting his right to be in the majority; his right to anti-inspiration, anti-opus, anti-climax, etc. Maybe he just fell asleep at the wheel. Or died. Maybe this was Bel's answer to Klunchun's refusal to 'act out death'. Maybe Bel- unwittingly or otherwise- represented his version of the western white man's death on stage: death by malaise, or death by detachment killing us softly, and we are him. “I want to disappoint you”, Bel said. ‘Ninety-five percent of the shows you pay to see are terrible’, he said. Perhaps Bel is simply asserting his right to be in the majority; his right to anti-inspiration, anti-opus, anti-climax, etc. Maybe he just fell asleep at the wheel. Or died. Maybe this was Bel’s answer to Klunchun’s refusal to ‘act out death’. Maybe Bel- unwittingly or otherwise- represented his version of the western white man’s death on stage: death by malaise, or death by detachment killing us softly, and we are him.

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