"I feel like chinese/brush calligraphy is very close to dance though, even if western calligraphy with nibs doesn’t work out that way (I say, blithely swooshing away at it with flex nibs and shiny ink) there’s a video out recently that I’ll try to find of a performance of the Lan Ting Xu, a famous Wei-Jin era piece of calligraphy."
This is a real point, and the PERFORMANCE element I didn't think of, I can see in re dance. I was thinking really 2d about it, just--the end product.
Oh that's a REALLY neat temporal note, that it might well have once had religious dimensions and now it's largely artistic/entertainment.
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Re: 31. 觀公孫大娘弟子舞劍器行 Guān Gōng-sūn dà-niáng dì-zǐ wǔ jiàn-qì xíng
Date: 2021-11-15 02:29 pm (UTC)This is a real point, and the PERFORMANCE element I didn't think of, I can see in re dance. I was thinking really 2d about it, just--the end product.
Oh that's a REALLY neat temporal note, that it might well have once had religious dimensions and now it's largely artistic/entertainment.