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 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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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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Jan 17 2010

Body cinema: The Cost of Living by DV8 Physical Theatre

I blogged about dance film ‘The cost of Living’ (2004) by DV8 Physical Theatre almost two years ago, What dance could be… in DV8 and David Toole’s vision… and I still admire Lloyd Newson’s choreography. Hence, for today’s Body cinema screening I’ve picked up for you exactly this film.

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Jan 3 2010

Body cinema: Renaissance Martial Arts, part 2

As you can see history has been pretty brutal in Renaissance too, compared to the dark Middle Ages. Let’s see where all these guys in tight pants, armor costumes with charming periwigs ended up…

renaissance_martial_art.jpgIllustration: Johannes Georg Paschen, 1659,  thehaca.com

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