The other day I was thinking about the word ‘choreography’. Consider the etymology of that word. The word choreography is a fusion of two Greek concepts – ‘chore’ and ‘grafein’. The one signifies ‘choir’ or ‘troupe’, the other ‘to write’. At first sight this a perfectly natural combination. What choreographers do, in this definition, is ‘draft movements’ – it is a form of writing.

‘Choreography’, in this sense, is a mode of politics insofar as it includes the question how  to organize a multitude. Choreography is about writing the ‘people’.

Above all, choreography is about negotiation . It is about balancing the tension between the concrete and the abstract – the concrete, physical texture of a body and the abstract products of a mind, and how a body has to change  itself to conform to this mind’s mental map. This jump from the concrete to the abstract, where the concrete has to correspond to the abstract, is always a question of labour  – human interaction with nature.

If dance gives up on this ambition to incarnate abstraction, to go beyond the move from ‘movement’ into ‘dance’, then I feel that the question of how to ‘politicize’ choreography is simply premature.

Instead, we can insist that the act of turning ‘movement’ into ‘dance ‘already offers enough food for thought.

The distinction between dance and movement strikes me. As someone who is desatisfied with the current forms that musical expresion take in our lifes resorting to sound and building relations with it from that space seems like a good direction.

Thinking about the politics in the relationship between the body that is choreographed and the choreography also seems to be valuable.Agency vs. non agency. Exploring the limit between concrete pragmatical movement and abstrated movement (dance) seem to be a fertile ground. How can we integrate the health and wellbeing of the body into everyday activities. What are sets of movements that can benefit us individually and as a society.

Designing and making interventions in culture seem to be one of the roles of art in a contemporary situation. How can we make interventions into movement and bodies.