Instead, these field notes attempt to lay out a prototype for engaging with translation as a choreographic act. I also do not intend to clutter the translation-or rather, your engagement with it, with the author's intention. By no means does this essay intend to ascribe any one meaning to the dance, as meaning-making occurs between the work and its audience. I weave together lived experience and praxis (theory in light of practice) to give context to the methodological approach used to create the performance. These field notes are written in the style and manner of the personal scholarly narrative. Can These Dead Bones Live, Again? (2021) is not demonstrative in that it is not seeking to be an expression or depiction of Ezekiel 37:1-10 it is a physical, albeit experimental, translation of the text. These field notes attend to choreographic structures (how one is ‘making’ translation), movement vocabulary (a set of movements that share common shape, direction, and effort), and grammar (the rules concerning codification, ambiguity, context, manner, style, and syntax). If I embody translation, can these dead bones live, again? Introduction:Ĭan these dead bones live, again? (2021) is a physical translation of Ezekiel 37:1-10. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them they came to life and stood up on their feet-a vast army. Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them, and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.” He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley it was full of bones.
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