quote: 'Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy',

Diagrams are pre-articulations of thought in motion. they foreground the work's elastic points, it's tendencies. Like biograms, which express the virtual node through which a body becomes, they are nodal points around which the future of thought's exfoliation circulates. They make the elasticity of the almost felt, exfoliating the work's potential across its shifting surface. Diagrams move thought, inviting the conceptual escape of "the action of invisible forces of the body" (Deleuze 2003, p36) Diagrams rhythmically call forth the relation thought-expression.

Diagrams give value to thought in the making. Valuation orients thought, proposing it as a concept for future thinking. It is integral to the process of actual occasion taking form, but is felt as such only in the event's final satisfaction.  p.217 & 218

Manning, Erin & Horrigan, Bill 2009, 'Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy', MIT Press Ltd

Forsythe / quote

Forsythe compares "One Flat Thing.." to Balanchines "Symphony in C."
He says, "It's the exact same principles except that we're no longer dealing
with.. that classic symmetry. These alignments have been.. distributed
evenly throughout the entire field of vision... a cloud of alignments."

source of transcript: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvu-O4pFgBQ&feature=related

quote: about bee language / Deleuze

"Benveniste denies that the bee has language, even though it has an organic coding process and even uses tropes. It has no language because it can communicate what it has seen but not transmit what has been communicated to it. A bee that has seen a food source can communicate the message to bees that did not see it, but a bee that has not seen it cannot transmit the message to others that did not see it.6 Language is not content to go from a first party to a second party, from one who has seen to one who has not, but necessarily goes from a second party to a third party, neither of whom has seen. It is in this sense that language is the transmission of the word as order-word, not the communication of a sign as information. Language is a map, not a tracing. But how can the order-word be a function coextensive with language  when the order, the command, seems tied to a restricted type of explicit proposition marked by the imperative?"

page 97 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand plateaus Capitalism and Schizophrenia  

quote: Peggy Phelan

"Performance’s only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, 

recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of 

representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something 

other than performance. To the degree that performance attempts to 

enter the economy of reproduction it betrays and lessens the promise of 

its own ontology. Performance’s being, like the ontology of subjectivity 

proposed here, becomes itself through disappearance. "

7. The ontology of performance: representation without reproduction. p.146
 Peggy Phelan, 1993, 'Unmarked, The politics of performance'