i went to this with chloe the other day.. given my last post and that chloe's life is somewhat similar to your own with a small child yet to sleep through a night i thought i would post. it was really tremendous...
Short Dissertations on Sleep: a new dance work shedding light on slumber Sleep: it pauses the personality, renders us vulnerable, links us to the animals and dictates the very architecture of our society... and yet sleep is so ordinary, so invisible, that we rarely stop to acknowledge its importance in our lives.
Short Dissertations on Sleep is a new dance work by Grace Walpole and Helen Walpole (Dancehouse, 16 to 19 July 2009) that asks ‘What is sleep?’ and offers five surprising answers. Exploring biology, culture and philosophy, Short Dissertations on Sleep draws on recent research to present a lyrical and mysterious performance-essay that integrates interviews, dance and narrative with an original soundtrack by David Corbet and lighting by Richard Vabre.
‘On a purely physiological level, sleep is just a sequence of electrical states in the brain’ says dancer Grace Walpole, who is also a medical doctor with degrees in art history and neuroscience. ‘But you only need to look at the complex social rituals, structures and taboos associated with sleep to see that is as much a cultural as a biological phenomenon.’
we can talk about it on the phone some time, amongst late night insomina spiced chatter
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Wow, would love to talk about it with you some time.
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