30/30 prompt: dance
User Generated Content (UGC) is becoming more and more important in Libraries, Archives and other cultural organisations.
The Southbank Centre is asking people to upload their “signature dance move” to the Dance Atlas, which is supported by a blog and a map showing the location of different dancers. Already there are some brilliant examples of the serious and less serious kind. Young in the Nineties, I’m particularly fond of the uploaded video of big fish little fish cardboard box.
Dance is probably second only to paintings as the most popular artform represented in poems. Two of my favourites are
Pavlova’s Physics by Jo Shapcott
The Dance by William Carlos Williams
The links take you to the poems on The Poetry Archive, and include recordings of the poets reading their work.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Rita Dove has offered a simple explanation for poets’ interest in dancing: “Poetry is a kind of dance already” (‘Poet at the dance: Rita Dove in conversation [with Robert McDowell].’ American Poet, Fall 2003). In the same interview, she describes her own love of dancing and its cultural significance in her life and work.
Today’s prompt is to write about dance - any kind of dance. Use any of the links in this post as a starting point, or Google dance and poetry for more ideas.
30/30 prompt: dance
User Generated Content (UGC) is becoming more and more important in Libraries, Archives and other cultural organisations.
The Southbank Centre is asking people to upload their “signature dance move” to the Dance Atlas, which is supported by a blog and a map showing the location of different dancers. Already there are some brilliant examples of the serious and less serious kind. Young in the Nineties, I’m particularly fond of the uploaded video of big fish little fish cardboard box.
Dance is probably second only to paintings as the most popular artform represented in poems. Two of my favourites are
Pavlova’s Physics by Jo Shapcott
The Dance by William Carlos Williams
The links take you to the poems on The Poetry Archive, and include recordings of the poets reading their work.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Rita Dove has offered a simple explanation for poets’ interest in dancing: “Poetry is a kind of dance already” (‘Poet at the dance: Rita Dove in conversation [with Robert McDowell].’ American Poet, Fall 2003). In the same interview, she describes her own love of dancing and its cultural significance in her life and work.
Today’s prompt is to write about dance - any kind of dance. Use any of the links in this post as a starting point, or Google dance and poetry for more ideas.
Posted 2 years ago & Filed under Jo Shapcott, Rita Dove, Southbank Centre, User Generated Content, William Carlos Williams, dance, napowrimo, poems, prompts, 3030 challenge, Notes
