Body cinema: bODY_rEMIX / gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS by Marie Chouinard

August 19, 2011

bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS by Marie Chouinard although premiered in 2005 for the Venice Biennale’s International Festival of Contemporary Dance, already has a status of pivotal dance piece of the last decade.

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bODY_rEMIX / gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS by Marie Chouinard (c)
Photo above: dancer Carol Prieur by Sylvie-Ann Paré (c)
Photo bellow: dancer David Rancourt by Sylvie-Ann Paré (c)

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Body cinema: Chrysalis by Wayne McGregor

March 3, 2011

Wayne McGregor has been lately probably the most mentioned and referred choreographer on Body Pixel. His work ‘Dyad 1909 (In The Spirit Of Diaghilev)’ was also featured in Body cinema during February, 2010.

It’s time to present Wayne McGregor’s 2002 Chrysalis video dance , made in the production of my favorite Arte TV channel. Mr McGregor dances in Chrysalis too.

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Photos: Excerpts from  Chrysalis featuring Wayne McGregor
Random Dance Company & Arte (c)

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Fluid cinema: Fukalata – Forbidden_places

November 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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Body cinema: William Forsythe – One Flat Thing

August 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.

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One Flat Thing by William Forsythe
Photo bellow: Michel Cavalca (c)

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