Nietzsche's Circus

dancer looking off a dance play
Choreography and Direction: Kim Vetter
Music: Charles Gran
Text: Kim Vetter and Friedrich Nietzsche
adapted from Human, All-Too-Human

Costume construction: Samantha Ketcherside, Shannon Knight,
Madeline Peyton, and Kim Vetter with thanks to Heather Kidd
The Lane Dance Co.: Doreen Carroll, Lindy Comrada, Angela Hubbard,
Emily Joyce, Samantha Ketcherside, Michael King, Sannon Knight,
Gina Knox, Arielle Olsen, Madeline Peyton
May 11-13, 2006 Eugene, Or.

"In almost all respects, philosophical problems today are again formulated as they were two thousand years ago: how can something arise from its opposite--for example, reason from unreason, sensation from the lifeless, logic from the illogical, disinterested contemplation from covetous desire, altruism from egoism, truth from error? Until now, metaphysical philosophy has overcome this difficulty by denying the origin of the one from the other, and by assuming for the more highly valued things some miraculous origin, directly from out of the heart and essence of the "thing in itself."2 Historical philosophy, on the other hand, the very youngest of all philosophical methods, which can no longer be even conceived of as separate from the natural sciences, has determined in isolated cases (and will probably conclude in all of them) that they are not opposites, only exaggerated to be so by the popular or metaphysical view, and that this opposition is based on an error of reason. As historical philosophy explains it, there exists, strictly considered, neither a selfless act nor a completely disinterested observation: both are merely sublimations. In them the basic element appears to be virtually dispersed and proves to be present only to the most careful observer."
--Nietzsche Human, All-Too-Human

Tango de las navajitas
Stride Machine
Red Decay

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