The Interaction Between Body and Writing :: Teaching Writing

The Interaction Between Body and piece of musicMy first text for this assignment was this haiku thank god for spring in Ypsi makes it easier to get out of bed. It markmed appropriate to the task of attempting to write in English without using any applied science, as the haiku form is traditionally concerned with the natural world. I envisioned the grass and earth on my property, newly bare to the sun again after the snows, and the letter-making materials available on the site. I could render my paper unfolding in my corpus since the point of the project was to germ to terms with the bonded nature of language to applied science in writing, I could see whole paragraphs about my use of found sticks and mud as well(p) as bits of discarded junk that my landlord had left lying around since decision fall. My argument would be that the use of materials that had originated from the natural world and been manipulated by technology that were now returning to their natural home symb olized the interwoven relationships between design and feeling and action that is written communication. I had some lovely medium-large ideas. But then I started wandering around in my head a little bit, and some interesting questions came up. Having grown up in ballet and still acting in the world to some effect as a dancer, I wondered if dance is also a technology in the same way that the alphabet and writing are. It seems to me that social dance, slice it does serve the purpose of communication to some extent, has no articulated alphabet of signifiers that correspond to words and letters. Dance forms like ballet and flamenco, however, most definitely do. For the educate dancer and the educated audience member, ballet is a system of thrust with numerous gestures, movements and shapes that signify specific meanings. The manner in which dance is formed, however, via the physical structure of the author, doesnt perform the same separating function that Walter Ong claims writi ng does in his essay typography is a Technology that Restructures Thought. The technology of dance is contained within the author, but the technology of writing is external to the author. While writing promotes objectivity by distancing the performer from his/her ideas via death penalty (326), dance to some extent preserves the unity of thought/ sense and the thinker. With my confidence shored up by Naomi Barons discussion of the