Caroline_afifi
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Just interested to know peoples thoughts on this subject and how people define the difference between Art and Entertainment? :think:
You are right, Caroline, people *don't* challenge teachers enough. Indeed, some teachers conduct their classes in such a way as to discourage any questions, obviously a sign of teachers whose knowledge is lacking. I love asking questions, but, as you say, a lot of the time people seem too scared to say anything to teachers. I've had people say to me after workshops when I've asked the teacher a question "I wanted to ask that but I didn't like to!" Why? Why are so many students so reluctant to say what they want to?IWhen I teach a workshop or present a seminar etc. I find that people very rarely disagree or argue with anything I say, they jsut ask a few questions.
In hindsight it is quite worrying because it means people dont challenge teachers enough. Just like school, the teacher has the last say and anyone who pushes it maybe seen as a trouble causer and one to watch. Speaking out in a group can be scary.
So true - especially with regard to ACE.The problem is the fact that most people whom practice this dance world wide are not from the Middle East and I come up against this time and time again...<sniiip>...Arts councils are more likely to fund the former as opposed to the latter.
So art in some places is connected to peoples and culture from which it is born.
Unless it's Damian Hirst's diamond encrusted skull of course:lol: On the other hand, anything that sparkles against a dancer's body is of course the realm of entertainment. Clearly not art.Did you know anything that sparkles is not art?
I'm possibly in a minority in believing that *all* entertainment is art. Even the trashiest TV programme requires set designers, wardrobe, director. Circus clowns design their own make-up and costumes. The blandest pop music still requires a creator, even if that creator was a computer program!
What is art? The messy blobs a two-year-old makes with paint are art. The way you arrange your dinner on the plate is art. Many craftspeople are determined that the functional objects they produce are also aesthetically pleasing. The arrangement of the web page you're looking at is art!