Feb 26 2010

Body cinema: Dyad 1909 (In The Spirit Of Diaghilev) by Random Dance Company

Thanks to the fact that I’m following Icelandic composer Olafur Arnalds on Facebook I got the link to 26 minute BBC footage of Wayne McGregor’s choreography ‘Dyad 1909 (In The Spirit Of Diaghilev)’ from 2009… I like them both, McGregor and Arnalds

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Random Dance Company: Dyad 1909 (In The Spirit Of Diaghilev)

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Feb 20 2010

Body cinema: straitjacket ‘butoh’ dance/ by tikul

While I blogged about ‘barbwired‘ project I have stumbled on video… more like a sketch by Vimeo user tikul. I’m hoping that tikul won’t be angry on me because I’m posting now ’straitjacket ‘butoh’ dance/’ video here…

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Feb 17 2010

Body cinema: Contemporary dance in videospace

Contemporary Dance in Videospace is a dance and video installation staged in Berlin in June 2007 at the studio 103. Dancer P. Park and Flavio Degen / Kosei Takasaki from kokomono collective mixed live contemporary dance and video art together…

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Feb 3 2010

Body cinema: The Human Animal by Desmond Morris

Documentary series The Human Animal by ethnologist and zoologist Desmond Morris have always been magnet for wider audience. Made during the 1990’s his series (same as his books) about human body and the cultural differences are great resources which from time to time I like to watch again.

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Jan 26 2010

Body cinema: Metamorphic Rocks – Diegonante’s new video dance

Diegonante is an old friend of PCB blog… this is his third video dance within Body cinema section… his latest video features great Japanese dancer & choreographer Yuko Kaseki and Russian performer Dee Mee Tree jointly with fashion designer Sadak.

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