Wonder Women (2002, 3.6MB, 1:30 min.)
This wonderful clip of a live performance by The Glamazons,
a New York based dance group created by video artist and
burlesque performer Alison Ward, will make your day.
By Mica Scalin.
Category Archives: dance
Variations V – John Cage
Variations V (1965, 7.5MB, 2:22 min)
‘John Cage made ‘Variations V’ in 1965 for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
He and David Tudor settled on two systems for the sound to be affected by movement:
directional photocells aimed at the stage lights, so that the dancers triggered sounds as
they cut the light beams with their movements, and a series of antennae.
When a dancer came within four feet of an antenna a sound would result.
Cage, Tudor, and Gordon Mumma operate equipment to modify and determine
the final sounds.’ – from mediaartnet.
Dancing in the Sun
Dancing in the Sun (2006, 16.7MB, 1:09 min)
Does what it says on the tin, & nicely too.
Made by Gareth Jordan.
Anthony Rousseau – Float Like a Butterfly
Sondheim, Foofwa, Liardon
duetavatargrange (2006, 28.9MB, 5:04 min.)
Alan:
That is absolutely stunning!
Was it choreographed or improvised? Are you saying the
source material was originally motion capture? Did you
contribute to the choreography?
Some of it puts me in mind of the kind of motion
“artifacts” one gets when pausing movie capture or
scrubbing through something..
Also there’s a spirit of resistance about it that is
profoundly human & humane – it reminds me of the
struggle to signal, to articulate, of people with
cerebral palsy whom I’ve known, or my late
father’s fight with Parkinson’s.
The piece seems tremendously dignified to me – almost
heroic; must have required *such* technique to perform (well,
doesn’t surprise me – I remember the Foofwa running
piece you posted somewhile ago)
This is everything I love about dance (& art in
general)
michael
Performers:
Foofwa d’Imobilit
Donna Kuhn – As You
As You (2006, 14.6MB, 3:00 min.)
We’ve featured (are featuring… will feature? – time is
all wrong here since the crash) Donna Kuhn’s
work before/now/later. It’s great.
Heartfelt & rich & fearless & distinctive.