http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqC9cCkqEX4&feature=player_embedded
Repetition, and stark imagery can be so powerful. Simple costumes, black, white, red, breasts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtZBJsi56L4
I grew up a jazz dancer, have danced for clubs in cages, on pedastools. I've never made a modern dance piece expressing my self in that way. What is that about? Why does modern dance not allow that kind of expression, atleast the release technique I grew up doing. Modern dance's history, trying to be something other?I remember when I saw Bill T. Jone's do a solo and he moved his hips seductiviely, I was so surprised, and so was the audience.
"Her art was reading people and their essence, and if you want, their soul, and reading that through the way their bodies express it." I think Pina observed people, I don't really do that. When one sits back you get to see and see deeply. I feel, and I'm present, but I don't often sit back and observe...
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