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THE GENIUS OF JOHN BERGER

Everytime I read a book that speaks directly to my essence, I hold it within myself, ridiculously possessive of every word and every meaning. But with some authors, the simple truths that they lay in front of you are so simple and profound that there is an immediate necessity to share it with others and laugh together at our foolishness in having overlooked it for so long. John Berger is one such. Very philosophical, very interpretive. And very subtle at the same time. He knocks softly on the doors of your consciousness, and does not awaken you with a loud bang. And so I am sharing here a few jewels of his writings ( Of what little I've read as of now). "A voice belongs first to a body, then to a language" "There are moments in painting when it seems that the pretensions are justified" "Satire is only possible when a moral reserve still exists, and those reserves have been used up. We are too used to the idea of being appalled by ourselves to be a

TABLE OF CONTENTS - Siobhan Davies Dance at ICA

This is a sharing of my experience at this interesting performance by the Siobhan Davies Dance at the ICA London. A table, whose position was constantly changed for every set of sequences, was the starting point of the sequences. The dancers would gather around it and trace on it in chalk their routine and the space in the room they would use for it. After that the audience would scatter around, sitting on the floor or on chairs wherever they wished around the room, merging with the performers and their respective sequences (solos, movement and theater based, some used texts, some used music, some used objects, some recollected their performances done years ago and re-performed it). Being in their midst made me feel like a static performer myself, I had to keep turning myself around so that I could see all of them. I guess every audience is a kind of a performer, they 'perform' the act of viewing; but occupying the same space as the performer gives a sense of intimacy and im