The 19th Step Development Day Eight Dancers and Marcus explore shape and pattern of the hexagon and the circle

Carol worked with the dancers Rose, Marina, Dylan and Marcus, drawing shapes with the body. Marina and Rose trace the sides of the Hexagon, and develop shapes creating a hybrid language.
Marcus and Dylan continue to develop their equation moves.

Marina and Dylan develop their dance of circular shapes.

Clips below show Marina as she traces the shape of a hexagon joined by Rose who traces her own hexagon shape. The final clip show Rose and Marina devloping an alphabet which will be accompanied by Sarah on flute.

Catalogue

There is an interesting issue of the catalogue for the library. How would you summarize which book you are referring to? Is a title enough? What would the title of the book be? One starts to run into difficulty because every possible book is in this library. Since titles are generally at most a couple of lines long, you'll end with many of the books with the same title. In fact is there a way to uniquely identify books in this library? Beyond reproducing the whole text, probably not. Some books you will be able to write a short programme which will reproduce the whole text. For example the book with MCV repeated continuously has a short programme which can be used to reconstruct the book: just keep repeating MCV.

This gets into interesting issues of measures of randomness and complexity. There are ways to measure randomness by looking at the shortest programme that can reproduce the sequence. I wrote an article on issues related to this and Memory in the recent issue of Drawbridge. It raises the question of which books do you pick out as having meaning and which are just random nonsense. The issue of music and noise obviously relate to this. But equally which mathematical proofs do we mark out as special and worthy of note and which are boring and tautological? There is a aesthetic judgement being made in the choice of mathematical pathways. I could get a computer to churn out theorems for me but which are worthy of me sending off to be published? The monkey and the mathematical typewriter.

Here is a link to the Infinite Monkey Theorem

Some thoughts about Borges, Tango......

Been reading Borges A History of Tango which is in The Total Library Non Fiction 1922-1986 came across these quotes and thoughts not sure what they have to do with 19step yet but here they are anyway

"Schopenhaur (Welt als Wille und Vorstelling I, 52) has written that music is as near to us as the world itself; without the world, without a common stock of memories summoned by language, there would be no literature, but music does not need, could exist, without the world. Music is will and passion; the old tango, as music, immediately transmits that joy of combat which Greek and German poets, long ago tried to express in words."

“We read in one of Oscar Wilde’s dialogues that music reveals a personal past which, until then, each of us was unaware of, moving us to lament misadventures we have never suffered and wrongs we did not commit.”

Was discussing with Dorothy idea of Tango as an example of passion and humanness being controlled and tamed through the structure of language, learning steps and routines and nostalgia rather than its original passion Borges describes it originally as The Fighting Tango, which now can only lament for what is lost…………..

Suppose been thinking about the differences between learning ballroom tango and argentine tango, sequences and patterns as opposed to intuition and improvisation and the relationship between mathematics, music and art……..

Dorothy keeps mentioning a primordial state…….do we make sense of this through patterns and geometry?

I keep thinking of the drawing exercise Carol led were we linked the hexagon to parts of the body with letters, which creates a dance sequence, the letters and geometry/numbers take over the body movements.... does it in Dorothy’s score?

Is Borges hexagonal library built to control all our physical and emotional needs?

“ To the left and right of the entrance way are two miniature rooms. One allows standing room for sleeping; the other, the satisfaction of faecal necessities”