Brendan McCall - "Yoga of Contemporary Dance"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Brendan McCall. movement artist and educator, talks with J about parallels between contemporary dance and yoga. Brendan and J went to college and made collaborative performance art together. They discuss the experimental performance training they received, conditions that enable creatives to discover and grow, experiential anatomy and Allan Wayne work, Jean Hamilton Floor Barre and Mary Overlie’s Six Viewpoints, and the spirit of somatic inquiry and purpose that inspired wonder in them both. This episode is sponsored by Moonclerk.

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0:00.0	All right.
0:12.2	The moment is upon us.
0:15.0	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:18.3	My name is Jay Brown.
0:20.7	How's it going? How are you feeling as the world continues to spiral
0:29.4	downward into some dystopian technocratic future where we live separate and afraid? How does that feel?
0:37.3	How does that feel today?
0:40.8	Was I not supposed to say anything about that?
0:44.6	We better start acknowledging it soon.
0:48.7	And if that sounds crazy to you,
0:51.0	if you think I'm sounding like a conspiracy theorist or something,
0:56.0	just think about it for a second. Think about how many people cannot imagine being without their
1:03.6	phone for even an hour, much less a day. Like, I've totally dropped the ball on my tech Sabbaths.
1:13.0	I haven't been doing my tech fasts at all.
1:19.7	Remember I was taking one day off? I haven't even been doing it. And just think about that.
1:30.4	Those of us who remember life before the internet and all these devices. And now people can't even imagine being separated from them for even a few minutes sometimes.
1:34.4	It's just the trajectory is obvious.
1:39.8	And I'm just trying to think about what that means for the future of life on the planet
1:49.5	and what my daughter's lives are going to look like, you know,
1:55.2	fighting my eldest daughter about how much time she gets to spend on the internet.
2:00.7	To her right now, to my 11-year-old daughter,
2:04.3	TikTok essentially means getting to have freedom.
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