1. thesis: the world is already here. {all the time, with all of its complexity} art / communication is just maki ng pointers to bring attention to certain aspects of it. heard from Steve Paxton in his lecture at Dance Academy Arnhem, Netherlands, 2002 道可道非 常道 "The Way that can be described the wrong ordinary Way." 名可名非 常名 "The Name that can be named is the wrong ordinary Name." 老子 / Laŏ-Tzĭ, motto from the dào dé jīng 道德經 / 도덕경 (ca. 400 before Chr.)

2. ais-thesis ancient Greek: „taking for true“ → perception (today: „aesthetic / esthetic“) body senses → communication seeing, (visual) smell, taste, (chemical) hearing, touch, movement,... (senses that we have not named yet) all related & anatomically unstable !!

3. groping... … and reaching recognition - feedback result of communication... contact eXchange dialogue sender / expedient receiver / recipient filling up the created structure with more content

4. semiotic analysis model 1- syntactic = what is the form? for example: a plate of 8 corners, made of metal, white edge, plane painted red inside, has words STOP in white in the middle 2- semantic = what is the meaning? for the example above: „please stop here!“ 3- sigmatic = relation meaning – form? icon imitation of... / resemblance for example: image of house, daily gesture >> DEGREE OF ICONICITY (resemblance) symbol means something else, (needs shared code / language) for example: 한글, red rose for „love“ index pointer / degree of sth. for example: city-map → STOP SIGN ☺ 4- pragmatic = relation to receiver? signal from request to order → STOP SIGN... symptom communicate a state of existence → social context, (intended) result(s)

5. for dance: 1- syntactic = what is the form? (e.g. Laban Movement Analysis: body, effort, time, space) movements, gestures, weight-shifts, touch, → phrases, groupings, stagecostume-design etc. who is performing? men, women? etc. 2- semantic = what is the meaning?..... ☺ 3- sigmatic = relation meaning – form? icon imitation of... / resemblance daily gesture, exaggerated moves, „abstract“ >> DEGREE OF ICONICITY (resemblance) symbol means something else, (needs shared code / language) sign language, „OK“ (thumbs up) vocabulary of Asian dance theater styles... index pointer / degree of sth. for example: how high is the water-level? 4- pragmatic = relation to receiver? signal from request to order → STOP SIGN (...) symptom communicate a state of existence (aahhh....) Physical states…..

6. also for performance: Six Viewpoints Mary Overlie originator → Anne Bogaert / SiTi Company Space Shape Time Emotion (→ symptom function in Semiotics!) Movement Logic / Narrative (→ semantics...!) → SySTEM(- iN) „languages of theatre“ → postmodern analysis → NO set forms,as still is in traditional archaic theater examine them all separately

7. Why a postmodern approach...? 道可道 非常道 "The Way that can be described is the wrong ordinary Way.“ 名可名 非常名 "The Name that can be named is the wrong ordinary Name." 老子 / Laŏ-Tzĭ motto from the dào dé jīng 道德經 / 도덕경 (ca. 400 before Chr.)

8. Sources: Hans Zender, Happy new Ears, 1990 Directives for School teachers of Fine Arts, Germany, 1992 Mary Overlie, Postmodern Mechanics *unpublished as yet Mary Overlie, lecture demonstration, Dansacademie Arnhem, netherlands, 2002 (with 양승회, Tebby Ramasike, T. Körtvélyessy) “I will eat your shadow!” catalogue for exhibition of Far Eastern Theatre, Düsseldorf, Germany Steve Paxton, Lecture Dansacademie Arnhem, 2001 Wikipedia (English & German…)