Une plainte d’amour. Se souvenir, se mouvoir, se toucher. Adopter des attitudes. Se dévêtir, se faire face, déraper sur le corps de l’Autre. Chercher ce qui est perdu, proximité. Ne savoir que faire pour se plaire. Courir vers les murs, s’y jeter, s’y heurter. S’effondrer et se relever. Reproduire ce qu’on a vu. S’en tenir [...]
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June 8, 2009
Paul Singh, Choreographer of the Mind
If Jérôme Bel is a choreographer for the mind, then Paul Singh is a choreographer of the mind. To watch a Paul Singh dance is to have your brain go on a gentle, guided tour- a behind-the-scenes tour of the very dance he is presenting. Standing in front of you calmly speaking into a microphone, [...]
May 12, 2009
Daft Punk as Choreographic Score
In her Masters thesis,“Dorky Dance, YouTube, and the New Vaudeville” , Latika Young traces the path from Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to Pee Wee Herman and Napoleon Dynamite, going on to further explain how the internet has propelled this new vaudeville genre of “dorky dancing” with its popular viral videos.
Strong supporting videos include Fatboy [...]
March 27, 2009
Elodie Pong, After The Empire
Elodie Pong, video artist, born in Boston, lives and works in Zurich. In her short film, After The Empire, cultural and historical icons intermingle in an absurdist scenario: Marilyn Monroe woos Karl Marx, a Japanese girl dressed as Mickey Mouse reads a sex ad, Elvis recites his lyrics with zero affect, and Robin coyly wins Batman’s [...]
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 a [...]
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 to the [...]
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 had imagined [...]
