Dancer and choreographer Hiroaki Umeda had been treated here with special care… His dancing technique, space design and approach to technology have made it so… I found this video thanks to DBM Mediterranean Dance Network which posted Umeda’s new video ‘Adapting for distortion’ on their Facebook profile several hours ago.
Hiroaki Umeda in ‘Adaptation for distortion’
Photo by Anna von Kooij (c)
I’m presenting you Silja Puranen‘s ‘Tatoos’, produced at the Balkan Fiber Art workshop. The idea of her artwork was the contrast of reality and dream, of our own everyday skin and the imagined one, the skin of celebrities seen on TV and in magazines. She used secondhand clothes as the metaphor of unglamorous life and then applied parts of human body tattooed with desired pattern that symbolizes the splendor of star’s life.
Martial arts and many forms of yoga are part of education in practically every dance school worldwide. Some forms are widely spread like yoga of which Hatha yoga is the most popular. The arena of martial arts is rather branched into subcategories based on different movements and philosophy; definitely a topic that deserves numerous blog posts.
Illustration taken from Wu Dang Kung Fu (c)
Marija Scekic is a contemporary dancer from Croatia who can be characterized as ‘a performer with guts’. Her strong and authentic concentration on the stage is a result of heavy bodily education and physical predisposition.
Photo: Sandra Vitaljic (c)
BBC documentary series ‘Visions Of The Future’ hosted by Michio Kaku is still very intriguing to see. Mr. Kaku is the main popularizer of science and renowned futurist whose calm voice introduces you to some major topics on human future in the context of robotics, biotechnology and human evolution.
Photo on the top: Michio Kaku with robot Asimo, BBC (c)
Photo bellow: excerpt from Fritz Lang‘s film Metropolis (c)
Our guest blogger Ivana will have a vibrant Autumn, fulfilled with textile and fibre art. After her successful participating and blogging on last year’s textile colony Balkan Fibre Art in Novi Sad, we have new exciting news to share with you.
