In this interview conducted by Mary Zournazi, Massui professor at the Univ. of Montreal opens for a connection between utopia and affect. Brian Massumi has over the last 20 years elaborated strongly in the tradition of Deleuze and Guattari, and has in more recent publications, esp. Parabels of the Virtual offered a number of strong texts relating to affect, digitality and virutality.

Giogio Agamben opens in this short text for a discourse on the term movement. His definition is vital in respect of politics and activism but also in relation to cultural practices, perhaps not only dance and performance.

Affect, has over the last couples of years surfaced as an important term relating to event
and the emergance of something new or different. Lenghty discussions have been held, here
Mårten Spångberg offers a small contribution in relation to dance and pickpockting.

In this text Mårten Spångberg elaborate on some of the more corrupt terms used within the
contemporary field of theatre and dance related performance. The last decade has seen the growth
of a number of terms and definitions that today are used with little or no specification.