A collective pat on the back
Bruce Baird
I ended up running into Tanya, Ginger and Rosemary today. Can't wait to see the rest of you tomorrow. But just wanted to share something. It was a really great experience to read back through the logs of all our exchanges in one plane ride in preparation for summarizing our conversations. From August 12th we really have covered a lot of ground and the comments tie together in such interesting ways. I think we should give ourselves a collective pat on the back for a lot of invigorating discussion.
Best,
Bruce
Bruce Baird
Assistant Professor
Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Butô, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History
717 Herter Hall
161 Presidents Drive
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-9312
Phone: 413-577-4992
Fax: 413-545-4975
ba...@asianlan.umass.edu
Alissa Cardone
I can't be there in person. i'm learning so much from all of you!
I'm still on deadline for my MFA thesis and apologize i haven't
commented on papers yet..
good spirits, alissa
Bruce Baird wrote:
> Team,
>
> I ended up running into Tanya, Ginger and Rosemary today. Can't wait to see the rest of you tomorrow. But just wanted to share something. It was a really great experience to read back through the logs of all our exchanges in one plane ride in preparation for summarizing our conversations. From August 12th we really have covered a lot of ground and the comments tie together in such interesting ways. I think we should give ourselves a collective pat on the back for a lot of invigorating discussion.
>
> Best,
>
> Bruce
>
>
> Bruce Baird
> Assistant Professor
> Asian Languages and Literatures
> University of Massachusetts Amherst
> But�, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History
Megan Nicely
Cheers, Megan
-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruce Baird <ba...@asianlan.umass.edu>
>Sent: Nov 19, 2010 10:51 PM
>To: butos-corp...@googlegroups.com
>Subject: A collective pat on the back
>
>Team,
>
>I ended up running into Tanya, Ginger and Rosemary today. Can't wait to see the rest of you tomorrow. But just wanted to share something. It was a really great experience to read back through the logs of all our exchanges in one plane ride in preparation for summarizing our conversations. From August 12th we really have covered a lot of ground and the comments tie together in such interesting ways. I think we should give ourselves a collective pat on the back for a lot of invigorating discussion.
>
>Best,
>
>Bruce
>
>
>Bruce Baird
>Assistant Professor
>Asian Languages and Literatures
>University of Massachusetts Amherst
>Butô, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History
William Marotti
As Bruce mentioned a few emails back, I've been lurking here, enjoying
the evolution of the conversation and being sorely, sorely tempted to
jump in--but being absolutely unable to do so this fall (co-teaching, a
December conference to organize, moving the Japanese Arts and
Globalizations group to UCLA etc. etc.). I couldn't figure out a way in
that wouldn't entail consistent engagement, and scheduling disaster.
But enough whining: I'm writing because I wanted to endorse Bruce's
congratulations to the group as a whole, as well as complementing Bruce
himself on his well-tuned commentary. I've read the messages, and very
much appreciated the developing discussion. And, although I couldn't
join you guys for CORD, I'm very much looking forward to hosting a
continuation of this conversation with many of you at UCLA's Butoh event
this coming May (20-22). So, my thanks, and my congratulations, once again!
Best,
Bill Marotti
Bruce Baird
First it was great to meet you and put names with faces. I trust we will have many changes to continue these conversations here and in other venues over time.
One more moment of praise from me, and one confession of an omission.
First the omission. I intended to take a moment at the beginning of my talk and specifically recognize my co-conveners (and even had a slide in my power point that singled you out, but when I had to ditch the powerpoint, that also that slipped my mind as well). So I would like to offer a huge thanks to Tanya, Rosemary, Megan, and Michael. They were the ones that initially suggested taking our proposal to CORD/ASTR, and you must have noticed that often major communication came directly from them. This was in part because I got the reviews back for my manuscript and got tied up in making some further revisions to my book, and I am in part speaks directly to their willingness to take the initiative in matters which affect their own lives. We couldn't have had this much success without them, and it was remiss of me to fail to acknowledge them publicly.
Now onto the next round of praise. I thought that the session yesterday went well. I particularly liked hearing about how the CORD/ASTR paper fit into your larger work. That really gave me a better perspective in which to put your papers. I was glad that we could Skype everyone in and let you all participate and despite the fact that we never got around to all of our questions, I think the discussion was productive. It was for me at least. One thing that Rosemary, I think, suggested was that we talk about how the group impacted our own work, and since I took the role of stage setter, I didn't do this, but I would like to say that my original idea that dance studies meet area studies has been very productive for me. The kinds of comments you all gave me on my two papers have pushed me to clarify things that I think that I originally probably blew by quite quickly or took for granted, and sometimes even stray remarks (things you take for granted) opened up entire worlds for me. Also, in particular I would like to thank our auditor Katherine for asking some pretty probing questions of us all, questions that I think really pushed us in fruitful directions.
Lets keep talking,
Bruce
