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MDPE.19:2 - Forces

ForceTension
Fidelity and changeA living practice must preserve some distinctions while changing across performers, bodies, instruments, material, and settings.
Excellence and replacementOne outstanding performer can keep a result reachable while making the practice dependent on one person.
Documentation and embodimentRecords make reconstruction possible, but tacit timing, touch, attention, interaction, and correction can remain absent.
Support and independenceA partner, score, cue, controller, venue, or teacher can be a legitimate part of the practice; removing all support is not automatically a better test.
Urgency and evidenceWaiting can lose a bearer or instrument, while premature intervention can freeze or misrepresent the practice.
Continuation and opportunity costMaintaining one arrangement uses teaching time, venues, money, tools, and attention that could support other practices.
Stewardship and authorityAn archive, school, festival, platform, or state body may provide support without having authority to define a community’s practice.