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Collaborating with the dead, Hildegard of Bingen, genius and villainy with Huw Lemmey (Bad Gays)

🕑 Added 2020-10-07 15:46:29 +0000 UTC

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Mat

very cool! Will look into labanotation!!

Mat

great tip thanks - you are in for a treat. One of my faves

Probably a more obscure and brief moment in the podcast - Shape Notes! Thank you for mentioning these, I didn't know of their existence! Made me jump back to when I came across and attempted to teach myself Labanotation (dance notation) which initially was developed to raise dance to the same esteem as music, yet is now obsolete due to it being so complicated / cryptic, yet some of the notation attached to directions of movement can be used and learned rapidly by anyone and applied in play/chance/improv movement practices. I should clarify - the theory around Labanotation is still being taught in Europe and North America (although they hold different values as to how it should/is taught), the notation however, I believe is only taught in one institute in Paris...the CND, Centre National de Dance.

Nicholas Wilcox

I'd highly recommend Ch. 5 of Halberstam's "The Queer Art of Failure", literally entitled "Homosexuality and Fascism", for a discussion about masculinism and Nazism. The whole book is about the value of understanding queerness and queer identities beyond simplistic heroic narratives of coming out, etc. Huw Lemmey is certainly correct that we need to come to terms with antiheroic/immoral gay histories in order to confront what my generation likes to call "toxic behavior in the gay community". I hadn't heard of "Bad Gays", but I'm excited to start listening!