{"id":53,"date":"2007-01-05T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=53"},"modified":"2011-03-18T06:37:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T11:37:10","slug":"sondheim-foofwa-liardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Sondheim, Foofwa, Liardon"},"content":{"rendered":"

duetavatargrange<\/a>
\nduetavatargrange (2006, 28.9MB, 5:04 min.)<\/a><\/p>\n

Alan:
\nThat is absolutely stunning!
\nWas it choreographed or improvised? Are you saying the
\nsource material was originally motion capture? Did you
\ncontribute to the choreography?
\nSome of it puts me in mind of the kind of motion
\n“artifacts” one gets when pausing movie capture or
\nscrubbing through something..
\nAlso there’s a spirit of resistance about it that is
\nprofoundly human & humane – it reminds me of the
\nstruggle to signal, to articulate, of people with
\ncerebral palsy whom I’ve known, or my late
\nfather’s fight with Parkinson’s.
\nThe piece seems tremendously dignified to me – almost
\nheroic; must have required *such* technique to perform (well,
\ndoesn’t surprise me – I remember the Foofwa running
\npiece you posted somewhile ago)
\nThis is everything I love about dance (& art in
\ngeneral)
\nmichael<\/p>\n

Performers:
\nFoofwa d’Imobilit
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