Cincinnatus Hibbard - The Dance of the Magic Paint Brush: One of the Dance Master Concepts

ISBN: 9781483554457 Briefly, the contents of this paper are as follows : The transcript to an oral presentation In which the dance master-concept is introduced in a charismatic style. Descriptions of dance performances and video links are embedded. Seven written commentaries follow, Which detail expanded use and further significance of this revelatory idea. Table of Contents THE DANCE OF THE MAGIC PAINT BRUSH [ Note : This speech was written and originally addressed to a class In the winter of 2015. I was invited to present the class with instrumental or advantageous Information or technique. ] I have something, [ beat ] An advantage. [ beat ] AndEvery Saturday Night It turns rivals into by-standers,And passers-by. [ In time with his words, the speaker mimes A threatening person then a person expressing fear and awe ] I will give it to you, It will be your advantage [ half beat ] It is the advantage of [ half beat ] Unlimited dance. [ beat ] It isThe Magic Paint Brush. [ the speaker pauses for several beats ] Recognize That your hand and fore-arm Are like a paint brush. [ the speaker regards his own hand and arm bent at the elbow ] This recognition is enough To turn any person into a dancer [ half beat ] Of unlimited creativity and invention Because it taps into Your infinite mental sets of language and imagery [ half beat ] Which begin to flow Out of you With an empty hand You begin to paint [ half beat ] The words and the images that are inside of you [ beat ] Not On the two dimensional surface of a canvas or a page But on the infinite three dimensional surfaces of thin air. [ beat ] YouWill be dancing [ half beat ] The Dance of the Magic Paint Brush [ two beats ] Named For the fable Of the artist whom the devil gifted a brush That brought any image he painted to life. [ the speaker pauses for three dance beats ] I will performThree dances That I improvisedWith the magic paint brush And give the circumstances In which each of the three Advantaged me. [ beat ] They will be three suggestions Of the three score and ninety dances You will originateAnd the circumstances in which You will perform them. I am only Your proxy. [ the speaker turns onA metronome ] For music I will play this simple beat. [ beat ] The first suggestionOf what you will doWith the magic paint brush Is a passage from a letter dance One of the R dances. [ half beat ] I will paint capital Rs With two handsIn a range of sizes. [ two beats ] Its Saturday Night. [ two beats ] Its Saturday Night.

You are the average dancer, Dancing, In a crowd, [ The speaker begins to dance, proficiently and unimaginatively ] Then You decide To show Your advantage [ The speaker pantomimes dipping his hands, like brushes, Deep into a well Of gold ink ] Painting a letter R. [ In a sequence of three fluid movements, The speaker, wielding his right forearm, hand and fingers like a large Paintbrush, Gestures a capital R in front of his chest. As he does so, His fingers appear to encounter the resistance of a solid surface, They splay and fan and bunch and twist Like brush bristles do on a canvas. This resistances causes the hand to move on the wrist like A brush head on the brush handle, And the elbow to playAs it alternately fights, backs off of, or circumvents the resistance It encounters as it describes the letter. Pausing a beat, The dance continues as the speaker paints a number of capital Rs Of different sizes, at different positions around his body With different hands,To the dance beat. Alternately moving the right and the left brush hand Between different positions, right and left, high and low, To a dance beatGuides the whole bodyIn dance.

The overall impression Is that of a strange and wonderful new dance. But judge for yourself, I have recorded each of the magic brush dances I reference And put them online. They are presently on YouTube In a series called The Dance of the Magic PaintbrushHaving finished the dance, The speaker continues ] You are now distinguishedIn a crowd. You are now distinguishedFrom the crowd. [ pause three beats ] The second suggestion of what and who you will do Is a word dance. [ half beat ] The word isZoey. [ the speaker pauses ] Another night, In another town I was dancing when I noticed a large group of beautiful women Enter and take a section of seats. [ the speaker pauses ] Another night, In another town I was dancing when I noticed a large group of beautiful women Enter and take a section of seats.

It was a bachelorette party. With the confidence of my advantage I walked direct to the future bride and addressed her As she sat among her beautiful friends And family. Congratulations, I said, What is your name ? I would like to dance it In your honor. Zoey? Thats Z. O. Y. [ The speaker then dancesEach of the letters of her name, In whole body gestures guided by the pen point Of his right middle finger. Again, I refer you to my online demonstrations. YouTube. Cont. ] [ pause for a beat ] That night You would go home with the maid of honor; Sisters, I was only your sexual proxy. [ the speaker pauses for three beats ] Sentences. [ half beat ] Each sentence you speak,Every statement you write,Is a dance [ half beat ] You have improvised [ half beat ] For The Magic Paint Brush. [ the choreographer pauses for three beats ] Recently, I made a video For social media Adapting the thesis statement Of a philosophy paper Into the next dance craze. [ the choreographer pauses for three beats ] Recently, I made a video For social media Adapting the thesis statement Of a philosophy paper Into the next dance craze.

The dance craze is called Sight Limits Define an Art Frame,Looking is an Art Form,AndThats exactly what you will spell out When you dance it. [ That can be found online, Presently on YouTube ] I will not dance it now,Its too long to dance it now. [ half beat ] The larger units of language [ half beat ] The larger units of language, That you produce as you speak Sentences, paragraphs, pages, and stories Correspond toLonger units of dance choreography. Longer units of dance choreography That you are producing Just in talking. [ pause ] If, As an index of all the language in your head, We were to run all your stories,Line by line, end to end, Along the single line of a page,Like a single dance stage,We would approach the proof of my claimThat relating hand to paintbrushTransforms you, as if by magic,