“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner.” Adam Smith
Voluntary exchange between free individuals, based on the principle of mutual benefit, remains humanity’s greatest invention.
What can be referred to as the commons of the choreographic thing, that shared space or pool of ressources where all of the individuals involved meet and benefit from, increases in value when everyone peruse their own self interest. The alignment of self interest (bound by and reacting to the underlying conditions set by both natural law and man made rules sets), is key for establishing and sustaining the choreographic group and creative process.
Putting in place the right conditions and rules that insure that self interest is aligned with that of the whole and everyone involved, is what it’s all about.
Since choreography can be seen as the practice of running condensed simulations of life itself, whatever works best in the simulation will probably behave in the same manner in a real world context.
More than anything else, what choreography has to teach us, has to do with how we organize our societies.
