Dec
7
2010
Steve Paxton‘s video selection tonight in Body cinema screenings… to shake our frozen necks and ‘ready for the winter hibernation’ bodies…
Photo above: Steve Paxton in The Beast taken by Julieta Cervantes (c)
Photo bellow: from MFS as base for improvisation – water
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Nov
17
2010
Tikul ain’t a stranger to this blog here… This chilling artwork whose concept and sound made me somehow feeling rather natural and literary ‘down to Earth’ on one dark Autumn evening…
The combination of low techniques (read: simple material) and minimal body movements makes ‘Forbidden_places’ deeply sophisticated, especially accompanied with the sound of the Polish duo Fuku Lata that ‘dances’ at the edges of electronica, psychedelia and post-rock soundz…
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Oct
3
2010
Selected works by Compagnie Adrien M for today’s edition of Body cinema screening… Compagnie Adrien M has been founded by the French juggler and computer scientist Adrien Mondot. The company mixes computer graphics, lighting, juggling and dance.
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Sep
15
2010
DanceWriter (2007) is an interesting online tool that converts text into simple dance moves. Meaning, you can create your own choreography by typing something – a message or by random clickin’ at the keyboard…
DanceWriter
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Aug
20
2010
Ivana Jozic‘s interview came just in time to start my covering of William Forsythe‘s web project and data vizualization concept titled Synchronous Objects… Let’s check his piece One Flat Thing – Reproduced (2000) as a first post regarding this topic.
One Flat Thing by William Forsythe
Photo bellow: Michel Cavalca (c)
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Jul
1
2010
Here is an excerpt from Nam June Paik’s TV program called ‘Good Morning Mr. Orwell’ (1984) featuring choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham. Cunningham dances with satellite-delayed images of himself, overlaid with crawling text about George Orwell’s time in Spain.
Video still from Good Morning Mr. Orwell by Nam June Paik (c)
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