Loving
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Abstract
The third chapter of the book turns to love as the motivation to connect, even in the face of incommensurability. It examines two more duets: Spiel, an improvised partnership between Vietnamese French choreographer Emmanuelle Huynh and Japanese butoh artist Kasai Akira; and Talking Duet, a talking and dancing improvisation between Huynh and another Japanese, butoh-inspired choreographer, Otake Eiko. These are messy, experimental, loving collaborations. The chapter notes the artists’ exceptional commitment to the complicated work of connecting. Huynh is deeply aware of the failures, the losses, the refusals, and the miscomprehensions that happen in collaboration, as well as attentive to the fragility and impermanence of living. It is her persistence through continual loving acts of not-knowing that makes these collaborations meaningful.