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My Greatest Moments in Performance Art
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My best performance art showing was on March 23 and March 24, 1999, at the Armory Free Theater at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
I was doing shapes of 10 known animals in a quasi-Butoh dance routine to my own music--the music in this case callled "Smooth Suspense", which I used
a Kurzweil PC-88 with the patch called "Goblins"
(patch no. 101) doing experimental improv for 7 1/2
minutes on this synthesizer. This was my first
evidence of loving electroacoustic music and fusing
this music to my performance art dance. Several other dancers belonging to a short-lived director,
Allan Nunez, did their performance art dance
exhibitions.

And on January 29, 2005, I did an even better performance art dance when the evolved rock band
Quadremedy rocked the Channing-Murray Foundation in Urbana during the Patience Mudeka baby benefit/party. Charles Applebee, who played bass
for the band, actually inspired me to do some unusual stuff...and he was my newest acquaintance.

Easy Little Performance Art Dance Routine You Can Do

I had chosen 6 main dance steps that will be easy
for you. I had decided on 6 alphabetic letters which
you can do regarding the entire body.

Step 1. Make the letter "X"
(arms out at 45 degree angles; the legs are also that way, about shoulder-width apart)

Step 2. Make the letter "Y".
(arms out at 45 degree angles, and feet together)

Step 3. Make the letter "I".
(arms straight up, feet together)

Step 4. Make the letter "T".
(arms out straight to sides, parallel to floor;
feet together)

Step 5. Make the letter "F".
(L arm and R arm out to the L side, feet together)

Step 6. Make the letter "L"
(sit down on ground, upper body perpendicular to the ground (that includes the face), feet
together, parallel to the floor with legs straight)

Now, you will add something between the 6 steps to make the little performance art thing a little more exciting...

Between steps 1-2, you can make tiny steps with
your feet to spread them out to make an X. You can tap them, swivel them in place, but eventually, make an X at the end.

Between steps 2-3, you can make swivels in place
with either the LF or RF, but eventually, let them
close before you make that I.

Between steps 3-4, you can flutter your arms for
a moment or shake them, but eventually, stop them
so you form a T.

Between steps 4-5, you can wind your arms forward
as if you are swimming the crawl, and then backward
as if you are doing the backstroke, eventually leading the arms to an F.

Between steps 5-6, you can touch the ground with the hands and use the hands as support to let the
lumbar region sit on the ground, and eventually,
close yourself up to an L.

The "between" things is what I call "transitions from one step to another."

And that is the little routine.

The exercise I did was inspired by Jennifer Smith,
a contempoary dancer from Back and To The Left Productions, which held a special community-involved
contemporary dance at Links Hall in Chicago, Illinois in December 2004.
BATTLP held a special dance workshop I attended at
that time.

Performance Art 101
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Now Playing: December 15, 2005
Topic: What Is Performance Art?
What is performance art?

Performance art, in my opinion, is a faction of
contemporary dance where emphasis is on freedom of
movement usually without any written-down choreography...even though some performance art
choreographers (including my strong friend, Lisa
Aleen Fay, who composed over 40 performance art
spectacles) set some ground rules (including some choreographic stuff) for this type of
art performance.

In addition, performance art often is installation-based, usually with or without dance elements, where
elements of video and/or audio are used (for example, computerized visualizations on screen while another person is dancing, or, a dancer rigged with computer wires to a computer-screen that moves upon almost every of the dancer's movements [this is known as MOCAP, or motion-capturing) to
create a multimedia presentation which technically
or not becomes an art as multifaceted as Brazilian
capoeira.

The rise of the "moving installations" in performance art became popular with retro-hippies and peace activists in the United States, especially coming near the end of the 2nd millennium. Examples of moving installations in this case include effigies and puppets who represent political
characters these people don't like, and often, these things have affinities to the big Mylar balloon characters used in the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade. They were used with great
success (even with some devastating results) during the WTO protests in Seattle, Washington in 2000.

Since the rise of computers and video media, including VHS camcorders, cameras, and DVDs,
more performance art spectacles are now more multifaceted. For example, Missy Galore, a New York
retro-hippie, was a VJ (video jockey) for her
ambient contemporary video montages set to music.
I witnessed that during the Boneyard Arts Festival
in April 2005.