A pulp fashion screendance, if you will: Men in Tights
Entries from January 2009
January 17, 2009
The Body Cartography Project, Holiday House
photo: Sean Smuda Holiday House is a playful performance that rarely lets go of your attention, like a wayward toddler whose silly antics make a stage of the living room carpet. Yet the performers in the Body Cartography Project display much more than eccentric behavior; they are quirky and convincing movers, and fortunately are given [...]
January 13, 2009
Screendance Integrity; Douglas Rosenberg
Most of Douglas Rosenberg’s Dance for the Camera workshop was not devoted to Final Cut Pro editing but rather to discussing the importance of heightened critical dialogue around the art form. The following excerpt is from his essay, “Proposing a Theory of Screendance”: “When we think about screendance, much less comes to mind in regard [...]
January 9, 2009
Trajal Harrell, Showpony
Showpony conceptualizes the possible glamour and romance of contemporary dance as a lifestyle and livelihood into a performance where the lines between dancers, audience, and community are blurred and constantly reconfigured by a shifting production of values – visibility/invisibility, recognition/non-recognition, attention/inattention. (Taken from the program notes) Showpony was not as biting or spectacular as I [...]
