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 [...]
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January 13, 2009
Screendance Integrity; Douglas Rosenberg
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 [...]
December 3, 2008
Pipilotti Rist, Pour Your Body Out
Just a short observation on the immense and lovely video installation by Pipilotti Rist at MoMA: Not only is it an amazing feat of projection, but the fact that one watches the imagery lying on a large comfy daybed completely transforms the art museum experience.
Comfortably lying supine, my body’s overall relaxation allowed me to simply [...]
September 18, 2008
Iannis Xenakis, Oresteia
Just a few thoughts on Miller Theater’s production of Oresteia: With all due respect for Luca Veggetti’s direction and choreography, does Iannis Xenakis’ highly contemporary and thrilling score call for dance in a balletic jazz idiom? In fact, why bring in dancers at all? Why not elaborate the most successful bits of choreography, those in [...]
September 9, 2008
Interview with Olivier Dubois
I came across an interview with French choreographer Olivier Dubois in Mouvement magazine where he talks about reinterpreting the legendary dancer’s work, The Afternoon of a Fawn. Dubois has some interesting things to say, so I have translated the interview below. Conducted by Gwenola David, July-Sept. issue, 2008. (note on the translation: when I say [...]
June 14, 2008
Matthieu Hocquemiller, J’arrive plus à mourir
We are going to throw a huge party.
We will want grandiose and pathetic beings.
We will be anecdotal and essential.
We will explain seriously what dance is, the inscription of the intimate and of the collective, the complex articulation of meat and of immediacy.
We will talk about politics, we will say really big words, enormous words, we [...]
June 14, 2008
Mains d’Oeuvres: le cousin de Chez Bushwick?
Mains d’Oeuvres is a fantastic venue and resource for fledgling artists. Located just north of Paris in the suburb of Saint Ouen, it could be likened to the alternative creative spaces for interdisciplinary arts in Brooklyn. It caters specifically to young companies, helping them get on their feet through various residencies and administrative aid. Here is [...]
June 1, 2008
Catherine Baÿ, Blanche Neige
A testament to the fact that performance art needn’t employ a megaphone or other ostentatious devices to get its message across. Catherine Bay’s project of gun-toting Snow Whites is cunning, decisive and wonderfully subtle. It’s been a long while since I’ve seen anything so powerful in the realm of both performance and choreography.
On Friday night [...]
May 4, 2008
Interview with Jérôme Bel and Daniel Buren
This year’s Vidéodanse program at the Centre Pompidou contains a great interview with choreographer Jérôme Bel and visual/installation artist Daniel Buren. I have translated it here for those interested in reading it. Interview conducted by Jean-Max Colard in Paris, Feb. 2008.
Everything Depends on its Context
A meeting between two prestigious regulars of the Pompidou Center: Daniel [...]
May 1, 2008
Vidéodanse 2008
Since 2000, the Pompidou Center has hosted these 2 to 3-week-long screenings of dance videos, open to the public at no cost. The Vidéodanse trend is to show a marathon of dance videos, although they aren’t so much dance videos as they are video recordings of the proscenium stage. I was hoping for more “dances [...]
