▰ Tap Dance:
Dance artists often spout rhythmic medleys of noises and counts during classes and rehearsals. In a wordless art that lacks a widely used form of written notation, these sounds, poetic and onomatopoeic, are strikingly efficient at conveying both what the steps are and how they should be performed. It’s an improvised language that can capture choreography’s cadence, texture and feel.That is Margaret Fuhrer in the New York Times on the sounds of choreography.
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▰ Heart Beat:
The silence, the thoughts / that come with it, the sinking / suspicion that something more / is wrong with me than anyone / knows, including myself, including / the doctor who hooked me up / to the EKG machineThat is the opening of a poem, “What Am I Afraid Of?” by Sasha Debevec-McKenney, in The New Yorker.
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▰ Backing Track:
I always thought, if the acting thing didn’t work out, which it still might not, I would love to be a Foley artist.That is Cate Blanchett speaking to The Guardian’s Eva Wiseman. (Found via Peter Albrechtsen.)
