ProArteDanza

(Harbourfront Centre, 5 October 2013)

Mami Hata's movement is her own. Her each step is natural, necessary, and occurs only if every muscle in her body concurs---which happens often and visibly brings her happiness. When she moves, it is for a reason.

Novelty is not an integral part of beauty. Beauty is a fulfilled expectation. Beauty is an evocation of the familiar. Novelty emerges as the artist searches for a more intense, more efficient presentation. Novelty emerges as the artist expresses the private, which is unique, hence novel.

ProArteDanza hold the balanced attitude according to which an individual neither spins in vacuum nor inanimately submits to an external design. What one discovers about oneself depends on who one is with. One travels to discover. What one discovers shapes what one becomes. One's perception of oneself is affected as much by how one has influenced others as by other's influence.

"Sweet Tooth" by Ian McEwan (2012)

Ian McEwan's novel is a permutation of stereotypes about times, places, and people. His tone is that of a tutor delivering a lesson: competent, respectful, detached, pleasant, engaging, and faintly condescending. There is nothing singular about the characters; these are the circumstances that make these characters interesting, not the other way around.

McEwan hides behind the back of a boyish writer, Tom, slouched at the typewriter that impresses the very pages that the reader ends up swooshing on his touchscreen. Lovestruck and hence stuck with his protagonist, Tom relives, fills in, and retouches his own and borrowed memories.

The novel concludes with three non sequiturs, supplied by Tom: (i) English majors are better than mathematicians, (ii) Sussex is better than Cambridge, and (iii) "marry me."

Discovering how to align individual self-interest with the social good and explaining this alignment to voters have been among the most valuable pursuits of the twentieth century.