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American dancer and choreographer Richard Siegal is famed for his mergings of bodies and systems. In 2005 he created If/Then, a piece for two dancers structured as a flowchart organized around gamelike rules: If I do x, you do y or z, etc. The following year, Siegal collaborated with Hillary Goidell and Florent Berenger to create If/Then Open Source, an online platform-- predicated on the belief that the beauty of systemic complexity resides in relinquishing individual control to the infinitely more qualified organizational abilities of community development --whereby visitors can manipulate or add to the basic flowchart of a performance, creating new actions or dragging into new positions existing modules such as Slap table with both hands simultaneously. Forearms on the table... Justification: An escape and Slap the other player as hard as you can. Justification: Violence is never justified. This DVD uses video and text excerpts to examine Siegal's work.

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